%0 Journal Article
%T Understanding the Link Between Organizational Communication and Innovation: An Examination of Public, Nonprofit, and For
%A Doug Goodman
%A James Harrington
%A Jiwon Suh
%J Public Personnel Management
%@ 1945-7421
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0091026018760930
%X 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 5 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 is 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
%K internal communication
%K innovation
%K public sector
%K nonprofit sector
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0091026018760930