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

ABSTRACT: Firm 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 siz

SUBMITTER: Haar J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11459839 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature