Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2021, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (5): 23-30.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.05.004

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Research on the Relationship Between Paradoxical Leadership and Employee Bootleg Innovation: The Role of Psychological Safety and Leader Ability Trustworthiness

CHEN Hui, YANG Ning   

  1. (School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China)
  • Published:2021-10-14
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Abstract: Bootleg innovation is an innovation activity that individuals privately engage in, which has the contradictory characteristics of high risk and high reward. Based on social information processing theory, this paper studies the effect of paradoxical leadership on employee bootleg innovation and explores the role of psychological safety and leader ability trustworthiness. The data are collected from 206 employees at multiple points in time. The results show that paradoxical leadership is positively related to employee bootleg innovation and this relationship is partially mediated by psychological safety. Leader ability trustworthiness positively regulates the mediating role of psychological safety between paradoxical leadership and employee bootleg innovation, that is, the higher the leader ability trustworthiness, the stronger the mediating role of psychological safety. The conclusions enrich researches on employee bootleg innovation and paradoxical leadership.

Key words: bootleg innovation; paradoxical leadership; psychological safety; leader ability trustworthiness; social information processing theory

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