Investigating the Antecedents of Knowledge Workers’ Innovative Behaviors in Mashhad Pharmaceutical Industry

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of knowledge workers’ innovative behaviors on knowledge sourcing, self-efficacy and perception of information transparency. The statistical population consisted of 240 knowledge workers in R&D pharmaceutical industry in Mashhad. From this statistical population 148 workers were selected using the random sampling method and assessed by the standard questionnaire. Data were analyzed using structural equation analysis and taxonomy methods, using SMART PLS3 and SPSS software. The results indicated that innovative behavior is affected by knowledge sourcing (R=0/521, T=7/61) and self-efficacy (R=0.61, T=2/81), and information transparency facilitates the relationship between self-efficacy and innovative behavior (R=0/43, T=2/17). The results of taxonomic analysis also showed that three behavioral clusters of knowledge workers can be conceived and transparency of information and self-efficacy play an important role in the occurrence of these behaviors. Results showed that supporting knowledge-workers can have a significant impact on the employee behavior and by implementing information transparency, managers can ensure self-efficacy growth of knowledge-workers and thus enhance their innovative behaviors which will lead to improvement in their individual and organizational performance and productivity.

Keywords

• knowledge sourcing
• self-efficacy
• innovative behavior
• information transparency
• taxonomy