The Difference of Influence on the Employee's Bootleg Innovation between Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi and Leader-Member Exchange Relationship
Based on integration of Renqing-Mianzi theory and conservation of resources theory,the study focuses on comparing the direct and indirect impacts of leader-member exchange on employ-ees'bootleg innovation with that of supervisor-subordinate guanxi.After analyzing 257 multi-times and longitudinal data of seven companies by both bootstrapping and RWA-Web methods,it concludes that:①Leader-member exchange has a positive impact on employees'bootleg innovation;②Relation-ships between leader-member exchange or supervisor-subordinate guanxi and employees'bootleg inno-vation are partially or fully mediated by psychological capital;③Direct or indirect effect through psy-chological capital between leader-member exchange or supervisor-subordinate guanxi and employees'bootleg innovation differs respectively,and the degree of influence of leader-member exchange is stronger in contrast.
leader-member exchangesupervisor-subordinate guanxipsychological capitalboot-leg innovationrenqing-mianzi theory