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Opportunity-enhancing human resource practices and radical innovation: The mediating role of exploration Cover

Opportunity-enhancing human resource practices and radical innovation: The mediating role of exploration

Open Access
|Jul 2024

Abstract

Aim/purpose

This study evaluates the influence of opportunity-enhancing human resource practices on radical innovation and examines the mediating role of exploration capability in this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

Hypotheses were formulated to determine the relationship between opportunity-enhancing human resource practices and radical innovation, as well as the mediating role that exploration capability plays in this relationship. These were tested in 168 Colombian companies from the telecommunications and chemical-pharmaceutical sectors using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) via the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique.

Findings

The study indicates that opportunity-enhancing human resource practices positively and significantly influence radical innovation. In addition, this relationship is mediated by exploration capability.

Research implications/limitations

Organizations should implement opportunity-enhancing human resource practices to support radical innovation development. These practices provide employees with opportunities to explore relevant knowledge and technologies necessary for radical innovation.

Originality/value/contribution

Identifying and testing a specific group of human resource practices that facilitate radical innovation is one of the most significant gaps in the scientific literature on the relationship between human resource practices and innovation. According to this article, opportunity-enhancing human resource practices facilitate radical innovation in organizations. Furthermore, previous research has not examined the relationship between opportunity-enhancing human resource practices, exploration capability, and radical innovation.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22367/jem.2024.46.09 | Journal eISSN: 2719-9975 | Journal ISSN: 1732-1948
Language: English
Page range: 213 - 245
Submitted on: Oct 19, 2023
Accepted on: Jun 22, 2024
Published on: Jul 5, 2024
Published by: University of Economics in Katowice
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2024 Andrés A. Osorio-Londoño, Pablo F. Marín-Cardona, Debihd Luz Alcívar Chávez, published by University of Economics in Katowice
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