On the Construct and Measurement of Dual Mental Model for Chinese Employees in the Context of Innovation

Abstract

Abstract: Individual duality is the construct footstone of dual organizational feature scenario; however, the academic world is still confused in their cognition about its generation mechanism. Combined with Chinese context, this paper puts forward the construct of a dual mental model. From the perspective of psychological-interrelated sciences, it performs a vertical analysis of the multiple implications of the dual mental model with a focus on the innovation context. It carries out a questionnaire survey on 689 innovation-related Chinese employees. It also develops a three-dimension measuring tool for the dual mental model, which opens a new path to the study on the individual dual level.

Key words: dual mental model, individual duality, scale development, innovation

CAO Yuankun, XIONG Li. On the Construct and Measurement of Dual Mental Model for Chinese Employees in the Context of Innovation[J]. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY FINANCE AND ECONOMICS, 2018, 0(1): 137-147.

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