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The third focuses on organizational factors, including
organizational leadership, organizational atmosphere, organi-
zational system, human resource management, and organi-
zational culture (Afsar, Umrani, 2020, Backstrom, Bengtsson,
2019). Individual knowledge and ability are key factors affec-
ting innovation behavior, however, individual sustainable inno-
vation is affected by organizational environment factors, such
as organizational culture, diversity of organizational culture,
and the atmosphere created by organizational cultural diffe-
rences (Backstrom, Bengtsson, 2019).
Organizational culture is considered a driving force for
innovation, providing enterprises with lasting competitive ad-
vantages and serves as a key factor for sustainable develo-
pment (Bu¨schgens, Bausch, Balkin, 2013; Yun et al., 2020).
Many scholars have studied the kinds of organizational cultu-
re that promote innovation and the kinds of culture that lead
to an enterprise’s sustainable development (such as learning
culture, open culture, green culture, etc.) (Yun et al., 2020;
Bates, Samer , 2005; Naqshbandi, Kaur, Ma., 2014). These
studies have not focused on the impact of cultural diversity
management within organizations and the impact of organiza-
tional cultural differences on innovation and sustainable deve-
lopment. Rather, research on organizational cultural diversity
has focused on the impact of cultural diversity and organiza-
tional cultural differences on economic effects and sustainable
development at the organizational level (Elia, Messeni, Pisci-
tello, 2019; Metz, Ilieș, Nistor, 2020). At the individual level,
researchers have focused on the impact of cultural diversity
characteristics on employees’ work performance and adapta-
bility (Ozgen, Nijkamp, Poot, 2017; Luo, Wang, Tong, 2020).
However, the impact of individual employee cultural diversity
management ability on sustainable innovation has not recei-
ved corresponding attention. This is particularly true in orga-
nizational environments, where the cultural differences are
increasingly visible due to the diversity of organizational cul-
ture. As such, the factors influencing employees’ sustainable

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