Based on conservation of resources theory, this study explores the impact of employee psychological capital on innovative behavior and the role of job embeddedness and internal social capital in this process. The results of cross-level data analysis show that psychological capital can effectively predict employee innovative behavior; psychological capital predicts employee innovative behavior through job embeddedness; internal social capital not only moderates the impact of psychological capital on job embeddedness, but also moderates the indirect relationship of psychological capital affecting innovative behavior through job embeddedness. The results of this study reveal the underlying mechanisms of how employees’ psychological capital drive innovative behavior from the perspective of social relationships resources and provide new ideas for effectively guiding enterprise innovation management practice.
KeywordsPsychological CapitalInternal Social CapitalJob EmbeddednessInnovative Behavior
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