Does Employee Care Trigger Innovation Under a Healthy and Safe Working Environment? Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry in China

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18450%2F21%3A50017951" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18450/21:50017951 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/2/194" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/2/194</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9020194" target="_blank" >10.3390/healthcare9020194</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does Employee Care Trigger Innovation Under a Healthy and Safe Working Environment? Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry in China

Original language description

Sustainability of the workforce becomes a crucial issue, of which responsible care for employees can increase job satisfaction and human capital that impact corporate ability to absorb and generate new knowledge. Firms are obligated to provide a healthy and safe working environment for their employees, but it may in turn hinder innovation due to rigid and structured institutional regulations. Drawing on data of 308 China&apos;s pharmaceutical firms from 2010 to 2017, we investigated whether employee care can trigger innovation under corporate adoption of the occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS). Our results suggest that both employee care and OHSMS adoption have a positive impact on innovation. Moreover, the positive relationship between employee care and innovation was more pronounced in firms that had adopted the OHSMS certification. These findings are valuable to policymakers and corporate managers in emerging economies through corroborating the important role of workforce sustainability in facilitating firm innovation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30312 - Substance abuse

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

HEALTHCARE

ISSN

2227-9032

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

"Article Number: 194"

UT code for WoS article

000622607300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85104488764