An alter-centric perspective on employee innovation: The importance of alters’ creative self-efficacy and network structure.

Travis Grosser, Vijaya Venkataramani, Giuseppe Labianca · 2017 · Journal of Applied Psychology

Summary. Employee innovation depends on the creative self-efficacy and innovation behavior of their social network contacts. A study of 144 U.S. product development workers found that employees with network contacts who have high creative self-efficacy and strong innovation behavior generate and implement more novel ideas themselves. This effect strengthens when those contacts have less densely connected networks. Employees with initially low creative self-efficacy also gain confidence when connected to high-efficacy contacts.

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Grosser, T., Venkataramani, V., & Labianca, G.. (2017). An alter-centric perspective on employee innovation: The importance of alters’ creative self-efficacy and network structure. Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000220

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DOI: 10.1037/apl0000220
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: innovation-networks, innovation-theory, general-innovation
Added: 2026-04-28