TY - JOUR
T1 - Ascribed or achieved? : the role of birth order on innovative behaviour in the workplace
AU - Liu, Zhiqiang
AU - Yan, Miao
AU - Fan, Youqing
AU - Chen, Liling
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The pathway through which birth order triggers status competition and affects individuals’ subsequent innovative behaviours in the Chinese workplace remains an unexplored topic. To fill this lacuna, this study collected data from China to test the relationships. Findings showed that the first-born siblings tended to have a rational status striving orientation, which mediated the relationship between birth order and exploitative innovative behaviour; later-born siblings, though, were more likely to have an emotional status striving orientation, which weakened the relationship between birth order and exploratory innovative behaviour. Considering that expectations for the future career may affect an individual’s current decision, we also examined the moderating role of relative time distance and found that it strengthened the relationship between status striving orientation and employees’ innovative behaviour. Our study is of practical and theoretical significance by exploring the pathway through which birth order affects employees’ innovative behaviour in the Chinese context.
AB - The pathway through which birth order triggers status competition and affects individuals’ subsequent innovative behaviours in the Chinese workplace remains an unexplored topic. To fill this lacuna, this study collected data from China to test the relationships. Findings showed that the first-born siblings tended to have a rational status striving orientation, which mediated the relationship between birth order and exploitative innovative behaviour; later-born siblings, though, were more likely to have an emotional status striving orientation, which weakened the relationship between birth order and exploratory innovative behaviour. Considering that expectations for the future career may affect an individual’s current decision, we also examined the moderating role of relative time distance and found that it strengthened the relationship between status striving orientation and employees’ innovative behaviour. Our study is of practical and theoretical significance by exploring the pathway through which birth order affects employees’ innovative behaviour in the Chinese context.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:59957
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.05.058
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.05.058
M3 - Article
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 134
SP - 480
EP - 492
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -