Research level

Research factors

Conclusion

Author

Individual level

Personality traits, emotions, roles, cognitive style, intrinsic motivation (psychological empowerment, self-efficacy, work emotions), professional knowledge, creative thinking skills

Individuals with distinctive personality traits are positively correlated with individual innovation behavior; intrinsic motivation drives innovation behavior

Amabile (1998); Woodman, Sawyer, & Griffin (1993)

External environment

Leadership factors, work factors (work initiative, work pressure, work challenges)

The leader factor has a significant effect on stimulating employees’ innovative behavior

Scott S & Bruce (1994)

Organization level

Organizational factors (organizational culture, resources and salary, strategy and skills)

Work factors and organizational factors have an impact on employees’ innovative behavior

De Cuyper & De Witte (2009)

Interaction between individuals and organizations

Situation and social environment factors, work emotions and supportive work environment, team learning behavior and employee learning orientation, person-environment matching angle

In a supportive work environment, when both positive and negative emotions are at a high level, the employees’ performance of innovative behavior is the strongest; team learning behavior and employee’s learning orientation will interact with employees’ innovative behavior; the degree of matching between people and the environment will be Affect employees’ innovative behavior

George & Zhou (2001)