Core Knowledge Employee Creativity and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Riskiness Orientation, Firm Size, and Realized Absorptive Capacity

Yaping Gong, Jing Zhou, Song Chang · 2013 · Personnel Psychology

Summary. This study examines how employee creativity affects firm performance in high-technology companies, finding that the relationship depends on three factors: firms with high risk tolerance see creativity hurt performance, while firms with strong absorptive capacity see it improve performance, and small firms benefit more from creativity than large firms do.

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Gong, Y., Zhou, J., & Chang, S.. (2013). Core Knowledge Employee Creativity and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Riskiness Orientation, Firm Size, and Realized Absorptive Capacity. Personnel Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12024

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DOI: 10.1111/peps.12024
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: innovation-theory, general-innovation
Added: 2026-04-28