Document Type
Article
DOI
10.1177/0091026018760930
Abstract
Innovation and internal communication are essential for any successful organization. Although communication within organizations has long been studied in the for-profit sector, we still know little about the impact of communication types on innovation in the public and nonprofit sectors. To examine this question we leverage and construct a longitudinal dataset using five years of the Korean Workplace Panel Survey (KWPS) from 2005 to 2013. Employing media richness theory, this study finds that internal communication positively influences innovation in the for-profit sector which, a finding consistent with prior studies. Similarly, in the nonprofit sector, we find that meeting with the executive director and the number of communication channels utilized in an organization has a positive impact on innovation. However, we do not find that these communications have any impact in the public sector. ** Contact librariesops@uta.edu if you are the author.**
Disciplines
Public Affairs | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Suh, Jiwon; Harrington, James; and Goodman, Doug, "Understanding the Link Between Organizational Communication and Innovation: an Examination of Public, Nonprofit, and For-profit Organizations in South Korea." (2018). Public Affairs Faculty Publications. 4.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/publicaffairs_facultypubs/4