Abstract Based on social information processing theory, through a multisource questionnaire study of 84 leaders and 339 followers, this study explores and tests the double-edged sword effect of ethical leadership on followers’ innovative behavior, and uncovers the inner mechanism using multi-level structural equation model. The results show that: ①ethical leadership can inhibit followers’ innovative behavior by reducing their perceived acceptability of norm violation; ②ethical leadership can also prompt followers’ innovative behavior by increasing their affective commitment; ③as a kind of positive environmental information, team trust moderates the double-edged sword mechanism between ethical leadership and followers’ innovative behavior.
WANG Yanfei,LIN Shanyan,ZHENG Lixun等. The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Ethical Leadership on Employee Innovative Behavior from the Perspective of Social Information Processing[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2022, 19(7): 1006-.
