Environmental antecedents, innovation experience, and officials’ innovation willingness: evidence from China
基于对中国403名官员的问卷调查和102名官员的访谈，发现官员创新意愿主要受官僚体系内部自上而下和横向因素驱动，而自下而上的因素影响较小；有创新经验的官员创新意愿更强，但受自上而下因素影响更弱。
Prompting officials’ innovation willingness is a prerequisite for processes of public sector innovation. This article constructs a framework explaining officials’ innovation willingness by linking environmental antecedents and path dependence. The empirical analysis, based on an original survey of 403 officials and interviews with 102 officials in China, shows that their innovation willingness is mostly driven by factors within the bureaucratic system, i.e. top-down and horizontal drivers but less so by bottom-up drivers. Moreover, officials with previous innovation experience tend to have more innovation willingness but are less driven by top-down factors. This study advances the theory of innovation willingness generation.