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Two Decades of Innovative Work Behaviour—A Bibliographic Study

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The present conceptual study examines the existing literature in the field of “Innovative work behaviour” in last two decades across different countries and culture, along with exploring the association other variables in an organized way. This study conducted a contextual analysis of top cited and rated peer-reviewed journal research papers in “Innovation work behaviour” from the period of 2002–2022. The article adopted an established five steps’ methodology comprising systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis. The sampling process was performed by employing the PRISMA approach. This research has identified 29 antecedents with six different themes or clusters, 21 mediator, 18 moderators, and key outcomes highlighted that are responsible for “innovative work behaviour”. The paper discusses the results of “innovative work behaviour” studies in the last two decades and attempts to find theoretical and managerial implications, followed by the limitations of the study, and outlining directions for future research. Thus, contributed to conceptualize the existing literature by connecting the dots and gaps identified in our evaluation.

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Chakraborty, S., Pandey, S. (2023). Two Decades of Innovative Work Behaviour—A Bibliographic Study. In: Tuba, M., Akashe, S., Joshi, A. (eds) ICT Systems and Sustainability. ICT4SD 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 765. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5652-4_27

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