Understanding New Zealand firm innovation: exploring human resource factors by firm size and strength

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume54
dc.contributor.authorHaar J
dc.contributor.authorO’Kane C
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-11T00:01:02Z
dc.date.available2024-06-11T00:01:02Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractFirm innovation is of vital importance to New Zealand’s economy, but we understand little about how different human resource (workforce) factors influence innovation approaches (product/services innovation, process innovation, and innovation speed). We explore three human resource (HR) factors: workforce knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs), workforce attraction, and workforce retention, using a sample of New Zealand private sector firms (n = 402). Regression analysis shows all HR factors are significant predictors of all innovation approaches. Further analysis shows workforce KSAs is dominant towards product/service innovation, workforce attraction is dominant towards process innovation, and workforce retention is dominant towards innovation speed. Moderating effects by firm size are found showing small-sized firms out innovate large-sized firms when workforce KSA are high, despite small-sized firms having, on average, weaker HR factors and innovation approaches than large-sized firms. We highlight the organisational implications across small–and large-sized firms.
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dc.format.pagination350-367
dc.identifier.citationHaar J, O’Kane C. (2024). Understanding New Zealand firm innovation: exploring human resource factors by firm size and strength. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 54. 3. (pp. 350-367).
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03036758.2023.2180761
dc.identifier.eissn1175-8899
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0303-6758
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69767
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2023.2180761
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
dc.rights(c) The author/sen
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-NDen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectFirm innovation
dc.subjecthuman capital
dc.subjectworkforce attraction
dc.subjectworkforce retention
dc.subjectfirm size
dc.subjectmoderation
dc.subjectdominance analysis
dc.titleUnderstanding New Zealand firm innovation: exploring human resource factors by firm size and strength
dc.typeJournal article
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