Purpose: Management scholars and practitioners regard innovation as key to long-term firm success, suggesting the need to understand the best methods for enhancing innovation in the workplace. The current study investigates how an initiative-friendly culture, individual creativity, and knowledge sharing contribute to innovation.
Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative study was conducted among 125 employees working in different organizations, most of them in France.
Findings: The results indicate that creativity has a positive effect on innovation, but neither an initiative-friendly culture nor knowledge sharing have direct impacts on it. Their impacts on innovation instead are indirect, through creativity. Furthermore, business ethics and organizational size strengthen the association between creativity and innovation.
Originality/value: The findings thus provide new insights into how innovation can be enhanced in the workplace, along with relevant implications for research and practice
