Abstract This paper conceptualizes psychological safety as an organizational level phenomenon, and proposes that an organizational climate for psychological safety is positively related to SMEs' innovation performance and innovation capabilities. These hypotheses are tested on data from Norwegian SMEs. The results demonstrate that psychological safety is positively associated with SMEs' innovation performance, and positively related to product-, process-, service-, and business model innovation capabilities. Furthermore, an organizational climate for psychological safety is particularly important for enhancing a firm’s radical innovative capability, while environmental dynamism is found to moderate the effect of psychological safety. The results support the relevance of psychological safety at the firm level of analysis.

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心理安全的组织氛围：与中小企业创新能力和创新绩效的关联

摘要 本文将心理安全概念化为一种组织层面的现象，并提出心理安全的组织氛围与中小企业的创新绩效和创新能力呈正相关。这些假设在挪威中小企业的数据上进行了检验。结果表明，心理安全与中小企业的创新绩效呈正相关，与产品、流程、服务和商业模式创新能力呈正相关。此外，心理安全的组织氛围对于增强企业的激进创新能力尤为重要，而环境活力被发现可以调节心理安全的影响。结果支持心理安全在企业分析层面的相关性。