Yu Qi, Aslam Sumaira, Murad Majid, Jiatong Wang, Syed Nausheen
School of Foreign Languages, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China.
Faisalabad Business School, National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Front Psychol. 2022 May 20;13:772668. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.772668. eCollection 2022.
Innovation is considered to be a dominant cause for sustainable business success. Knowledge management and intellectual capital are powerful tools to promote innovation in the organization. Therefore, this study aims to explore the influence of knowledge management process and intellectual capital on innovation with the mediating effect of entrepreneurial orientation and moderating role of leader education level. Data were collected from a sample of 393 IT firms listed in the Pakistan Software Houses Association and applied a partial least squares structural educational modeling (SEM) technique. The results show that the knowledge management process and intellectual capital have a positive effect on innovation. Moreover, the study confirms that entrepreneurial orientation partially mediates the relationship between knowledge management and intellectual capital on innovation. Furthermore, the moderation effect of a leader's education was confirmed for the knowledge management-innovation relationship whereas, the moderation effect of the leader's education on intellectual capital and innovation relationship was insignificant. Recommendations for practitioners and future research directions were also discussed.
创新被认为是企业可持续成功的主要原因。知识管理和智力资本是促进组织创新的有力工具。因此，本研究旨在探讨知识管理过程和智力资本对创新的影响，并考察创业导向的中介作用以及领导者教育水平的调节作用。数据收集自巴基斯坦软件屋协会列出的393家信息技术公司的样本，并应用了偏最小二乘结构方程建模（SEM）技术。结果表明，知识管理过程和智力资本对创新具有积极影响。此外，研究证实创业导向在知识管理和智力资本与创新之间的关系中起部分中介作用。此外，领导者教育对知识管理与创新关系的调节作用得到证实，而领导者教育对智力资本与创新关系的调节作用不显著。还讨论了对从业者的建议和未来的研究方向。
