Influential Article Review - Negative Shocks Can Inspire People to Focus On Opportunities

Abstract

This paper examines innovation. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: By responding to the call for research on negative career shocks and future time perspective, this study regarded internal social capital as a tool of resource retention which shifts attention to negative career shocks’ positive effects. We test a moderated mediation model which illustrates the effect of negative career shocks on focus on opportunities—positive dimension of occupational future time perspective. Results revealed that internal social capital acts as the mediator between negative career shocks and focus on opportunities, and organizational embeddedness moderates the mediation effect. The relationship is stronger when individuals are highly embedded in organizations. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.