The Effect of Organizational Resilience on Employee Innovation Behavior in A VUCA Environment: Evidence from Meta-Analysis

This paper has explored how organizational resilience influences employee innovation behavior in a VUCA environment. To test the relationship among employees' mental resilience and innovation behavior, this study used a meta-analysis to conduct a quantitative review of existing literature. Consistent with previous studies, this study found a significant positive correlation among organizational resilience and employee innovation behavior. Based on the analysis from the perspective of resource conservation theory, organizations encourage flexible practices, and employees can easily seek information or help within the organization and make innovation attempts. The findings indicate that uncertainty avoidance has a significant negative moderating effect on the correlation between organizational resilience and innovative behavior. This indicates that in a social environment with a high level of uncertainty avoidance, the correlation among innovative behavior and organizational resilience is low. This study also indicates that there was no significant difference in the type of measurement tools and gender differences in the positive effect of organizational resilience on innovation behavior. Through meta-regression, this study also found that the correlation among innovation behavior and organizational resilience was on the rise, indicating that in the international environment with increasing VUCA, the positive effect of organizational resilience on innovation behavior was increasingly prominent. This research has contributed to existing literature by elucidating the intricate dynamics among employee innovation behavior and organizational resilience within a VUCA environment.