Due to the relevance of innovativeness in the competitiveness and survival of a company in a constantly changing environment, we have questioned about how to facilitate innovativeness in organizations. Some recent literature presents organizational learning process as the key factor in order for innovation to occur. For this reason, we have tried to analyze the influence of organizational learning process on innovativeness using the partial least square (PLS) approach to structural equation modeling on data from 107 Spanish companies. We understand innovativeness as a combination of innovative culture and product/service and process innovation. Moreover, we have defined organizational learning as a continuous process with four phases. All of them must get to a high importance if firm wants to reach their aims with regard to innovation because the results of our research confirm a positive and significant relation between organizational learning and innovativeness as well as previous researches.
COBISS.SI-ID: 20250598
This study empirically relates two important areas of management research: the fullrange theory of leadership and the organizational learning process. The results show that transformational leadership has a strong impact on all four constructs of organizational learning. A direct impact is evident only regarding information acquisition and behavioural and cognitive changes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18520294
As the body of knowledge on marketing-sales interface expands, there is a greater need to investigate the specific aspects of marketing–sales configurations in B2B firms. Qualitative methodology and interview data collected from over 100 sales and marketing professionals from the US, The Netherlands and Slovenia was used.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19178214
The paper presents and tests a model of innovativeness improvement based on the impact of organizational learning culture. The concept of organizational learning culture (OLC) is presented and defined as a set of norms and values about the functioning of an organization. Data from 201 Korean companies employing more than 50 people were gathered. The impact of OLC on innovations empirically tested via structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show that OLC has a very strong positive direct effect on innovations as well as moderate positive indirect impact via innovative culture.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19211494
The paper employs the network perspective to study patterns and structures of intraorganizational learning network. Confirmatory social network analysis (exponential random graph modeling) was employed for data analysis. Findings suggest: (1) central actors int he learning network are experienced and hold senior positions int he organizational hierarchy; (2) evidence of homophily and proximity; (3) learning relationships and nonreciprocal; and (4) transitivity and high local clustering with sparse intercluster ties are significant for intraorganizational learning networks.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19212518