Individual employee innovation is the cornerstone of an organization's innovation, and all innovative activities of an organization are inseparable from the innovative behavior of employees. This paper retrieves the literature on employee innovation behavior published in SSCI journals between 2013 and 2022, and analyses and compares the overall number of published literature and journal sources. Meanwhile, CiteSpace visualization software was used to visualize and analyze the keywords of the literature, discover the current research hotspot focus and development trend, synthesize the hot topics of employee innovation research, and propose feasible suggestions for future research.

Mengting Hu. Review of Employee Innovation Behavior Research and Prospects. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 6: 1-9. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2023.050601.

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