Abstract
Organizational constraints are work environment characteristics that make performing job-related tasks more challenging. In this paper, we examine how innovation centralization - the concentration of innovation-related decision-making authority among top management - constitutes a constraint that can affect top managers' psychological well-being because it makes the pursuit of innovation more difficult for top managers. We also propose that top managers' entrepreneurial passion, which is the intense enjoyment of entrepreneurial activities, and organizational identification, which is the shared identity managers may have with their firms, moderate this relationship. We tested our hypotheses using a multi-wave survey design with a sample of top managers (N = 396). Although we do not find a direct effect of innovation centralization on top managers' psychological well-being, we find that for top managers who have less entrepreneurial passion or more organizational identification, the relationship between innovation centralization and psychological well-being was negative.