ENTREPRENEURIAL CLIMATE AND INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR: A MULTILEVEL INVESTIGATION.

We examined how organizational entrepreneurial climates influence employee innovative behavior. Multilevel analyses revealed that organizational innovative climate was positively related to employee innovative behavior indirectly through employee passion for inventing. In addition, the multi-dimensions of entrepreneurial climates interactively influenced employee innovative behavior: when proactive climate increased, the positive relationship between innovative climate and passion for inventing became stronger; when risk-taking climate increased, the positive relationship between passion for inventing and innovative behavior became stronger; and the indirect effect of innovative climate on employee innovative behavior via passion for inventing was the strongest when proactive and risk-taking climates were both high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]