Are employee-friendly workplaces conducive to innovation?
By Jie Chen, Woon Sau Leung, Kevin P. Evans. 2016
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We find strong evidence that firms with employee-friendly workplaces achieve greater innovative success, particularly in industries where innovation is more difficult to achieve. Furthermore, employee-friendly firms were also more inclined to sustain R&D investment during the recent crisis. These findings are consistent with the view that an employee-friendly workplace helps to develop tolerance for failure, which encourages engagement in innovation. We find no support for alternative explanations, such as employee-friendly workplaces helping to attract and retain talented employees and reducing career concerns of executives, which could nurture innovation.
Subfields: Accounting, Finance, Safety Research
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Citations in the corpus
- How subjective and non-physical parameters affect occupants’ environmental comfort perception (2018, background): “Therefore, providing appropriate comfort conditions supports both the social and the economic sustainability of the company [16], and an employee-friendly workplace has also been associated to higher innovation in companies [17].”
- How Do Foreign Institutional Investors Enhance Firm Innovation? (2017, unknown): “Chen, Leung, and Evans (2016) find that a firm’s treatment of its employees affects innovation.”