The Role of Organizational Learning Capabilities in Strategic Alliances

Recent studies on strategic alliance show great interest on how firms develop alliance capabilities to achieve alliance success. This study examines the relationship between organizational learning capabilities and alliance performance. The concept of organizational learning capabilities in this study is developed comprising training availability, technical expertise, and alliance experience. It proposes that a greater alliance learning capability is positively related to alliance goal achievement. The research further investigates how the inter- and intra-firm mechanism, the average level of technical expertise and alliance experience, and the gap of technical expertise and alliance experience between the partners impact alliance objectives

Learning in and of corporate venture capital organizations in Germany: industry structure, companies' strategies, organizational learning capabilities

Based on responses from 20 corporate venture capital organizations (CVCs) in Germany, we examine the goals, degree of autonomy, fund structure, and main investment criteria underlying the venture strategies of CVCs in Germany today as well as how the CVCs have performed strategically and financially. Further we focus on what CVCs did learn based on their experience and which strategic approach to corporate venture capital is most likely to lead to high performance. The main findings are that an organization’s deal experience tends to influence the selection of strategic as opposed to financial goals and affects CVC performance. Individual experience has partly an additional effect on CVC performance. CVCs pursuing an approach that emphasized financial more than strategic goals have more experience at transacting deals and are financially – and sometimes strategically – more successful than CVCs that focus mainly on strategic goals. These results support conclusions drawn by Siegel, Siegel, and MacMillan (1988) and thereby challenge the findings that Gompers and Lerner (1998) reported for the German market in question. We discuss the limitations and contributions of our findings and provide directions for future research. -- Anhand von 20 Corporate Venture Capitalist Organisationen (CVCs) in Deutschland untersuchen wir die Ziele, das Ausmaß an Entscheidungsautonomie, die Fondsstruktur sowie die wichtigsten Investitionskriterien, die den Strategien der CVCs in Deutschland zugrunde liegen; und wir gehen der Frage nach, wie erfolgreich die CVCs in strategischer und finanzieller Hinsicht waren bzw., ob sie ihre Ziele erreicht haben. Darüber hinaus richten wir unser Augenmerk darauf, was CVCs basierend auf ihren Erfahrungen gelernt haben und welcher strategische Ansatz für das Corporate VC-Geschäft allgemein der erfolgversprechendste ist. Die Hauptergebnisse machen deutlich, dass die Transaktionserfahrung der CVCs, die Wahl der grundsätzlichen Zielrichtung – strategische vs. finanzielle – ebenso beeinflusst, wie den CVC-Erfolg. Die individuelle Erfahrung hat nur teilweise einen zusätzlichen Einfluß auf den CVC-Erfolg. CVCs, die überwiegend finanzielle gegenüber strategischen Zielen verfolgen, verfügen über mehr Transaktionserfahrung und sind finanziell – teilweise auch strategisch – erfolgreicher als CVCs, die vorwiegend strategische Ziele verfolgen. Diese Ergebnisse stützen Erkenntnisse von Siegel, Siegel und MacMillan (1988) und stellen damit anderslautende Ergebnisse von Gompers und Lerner (1998), zumindest für den deutschen CVC-Markt, in Frage. Wir diskutieren den Beitrag unserer Ergebnisse und liefern Ansätze für zukünftige Forschung.

Sustainable and traditional product innovation without scale and experience, but only for KIBS!

This study analyzes the ideal strategic trajectory for sustainable and traditional product innovation. Using a sample of 74 Costa Rican high-performance businesses for 2016, we employ fuzzy set analysis (qualitative comparative analysis) to evaluate how the development of sustainable and traditional product innovation strategies is conditioned by the business’ learning capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation in knowledge-intensive (KIBS) and non-knowledge-intensive businesses. The results indicate two ideal strategic configurations of product innovation. The first strategic configuration to reach maximum product innovation requires the presence of KIBS firms that have both an entrepreneurial and learning orientation, while the second configuration is specific to non-KIBS firms with greater firm size and age along with entrepreneurial and learning orientation. KIBS firms are found to leverage the knowledge-based and customer orientations that characterize their business model in order to compensate for the shortage of important organizational characteristics—which we link to liabilities or smallness and newness—required to achieve optimal sustainable and traditional product innovation.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

SCHOOL CLIMATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITIES AMONG TEACHERS IN POLANCO DISTRICT II: Education

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the school climate and organizational learning capacities of teachers in the Polanco II District during the calendar year 2020. In this study, a quantitative descriptive-correlational research design was used. Data from 154 instructors in the Polanco II District are collected using frequency counting and percent, weighted mean, standard deviation, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman Rank-Order Correlation. The findings revealed that the perceived degree of school climate was very high. All indicators had standard deviations less than 3.00, indicating that the mean responses were closely clustered. Organizational learning capability was assessed to be quite capable. According to the data, teachers' assessed school climate and organizational learning capability are highly associated and significantly related to organizational learning capability

The Relationship Between Adopting and Utilizing a Centralistic Management Control System in Indonesian Local Government: Impacts on Organisational Learning

This thesis has examined the adoption and implementation of a centralistic management control system in Indonesian Local Governments (ILGs). A theoretical model of the adoption of SAKIP in ILGs and the relationship between the diagnostic and interactive use of SAKIP and ILGs' organizational learning capabilities was developed and tested empirically within an institutional theory framework. The findings highlight the complexity and dynamic process of adopting and implementing a MCS such as SAKIP in a highly bureaucratic environment

Patient safety improvement in U.S. hospitals: applying an organizational learning model to explore conceptual and empirical considerations

Hospitals face significant pressure to improve patient safety. This dissertation examines how organizational learning influences three processes critical to hospital efforts to identify, prioritize, and promote safety improvements. The first study, a systematic scoping review, investigates if and how safety toolkits identify learning mechanisms that are important for hospitals to achieve safety improvements. Fewer than half of the peer-reviewed toolkit articles (n=36) identified all of the organizational learning mechanisms required to optimize improvement from safety interventions. Further, articles rarely included all relevant measure types (staff perception, process, outcome) that assess and facilitate learning from the toolkit-based interventions in order to improve safety. The second study draws on in-depth qualitative interviews (sixteen informants at four hospitals) to describe how hospitals’ organizational learning capabilities relate to the identification of safety practices and information sources used to prioritize hospital safety improvements. Hospitals varied in the safety practices and information sources used to determine priorities. Hospitals with learning-oriented leadership or a supportive learning environment appear more likely to learn from multiple safety practices and various information sources. Barriers in organizational learning capabilities may hinder hospitals’ potential for improvement and thereby their safety performance. The third study explores whether a relationship exists between hospital staff perceptions of their organizational culture and staff involvement in large-scale adverse events (LSAEs) using survey data (209 respondents from six hospitals). Hospitals are often advised to modify their organizational cultures in order to promote safety. Respondent perceptions differed between respondents involved in an LSAE relative to those that were not involved in an LSAE on all ten cultural factors considered. Results from an adjusted logistic regression model indicated that one culture factor was key: less favorable respondent perceptions of employee engagement were associated with an increased likelihood of the respondent’s involvement with an LSAE. Hospitals with an organizational culture supportive of learning for safety improvement, and in particular more favorable employee engagement, appear to be better protected against the risks of LSAEs. Collectively, these studies highlight opportunities for hospitals to improve patient safety by managing their organizational learning capabilities. Future research should examine how hospitals develop their organizational learning capabilities.2020-10-23T00:00:00

The Relationship between Commitment-based HR Practices and Organizational Performance: The Role of Organizational Learning Capabilities as a Mediator

This study intends to investigate the relationship between commitment-based human resource practices (CBHRP) and organizational performance of the multi-national organizations in Malaysia with the present of organizational learning capability (OLC) as the mediator. The data were collected from 150 multi-national organizations, using a survey questionnaire. The returned response rate was 97 percent. A relevant statistical analytical such as regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses set forth in this study. The outcome of the analysis showed that the relationship between commitment-based HR practices and organizational performance was influence by organizational learning capability. The results imply that the multi-national organizations should enhance their CBHRP and OLC to strengthen their organizational performance

Sustainable And Traditional Product Innovation Without Scale And Experience, But Only For KIBS!

This study analyzes the ideal strategic trajectory for sustainable and traditional product innovation. Using a sample of 74 Costa Rican high-performance businesses for 2016, we employ fuzzy set analysis (qualitative comparative analysis) to evaluate how the development of sustainable and traditional product innovation strategies is conditioned by the business' learning capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation in knowledge-intensive (KIBS) and non-knowledge-intensive businesses. The results indicate two ideal strategic configurations of product innovation. The first strategic configuration to reach maximum product innovation requires the presence of KIBS firms that have both an entrepreneurial and learning orientation, while the second configuration is specific to non-KIBS firms with greater firm size and age along with entrepreneurial and learning orientation. KIBS firms are found to leverage the knowledge-based and customer orientations that characterize their business model in order to compensate for the shortage of important organizational characteristics-which we link to liabilities or smallness and newness-required to achieve optimal sustainable and traditional product innovation

The Effect of Organizational Learning Capability on Firm Performance: Mediated by Technological Innovation Capability

Researchers claimed that technological innovation and organizational learning capabilities are key for building sustainable competitive advantages and improving firm performance in the vibrant business arena. However, the significance of technological innovation capability as mediating variable between the organizational learning capability and firm performance is not well explored. This paper aims to fill the gap by developing a conceptual framework and testing hypotheses on the relationships using a survey data from 243 small and medium manufacturing firms in Ethiopia. SEM and PCA approaches were used to study the relationships. The study result discovered that technological innovation capability has a mediating role on the relationship between organizational learning capability and firm performance.  Moreover it has a direct positive effect on firm performance. It also showed that organizational learning capability has strong positive effect on both technological innovation capability and firm performance. Keywords: Organizational learning, technological innovation, firm performance, SMEs, Competitive advantage, Mediation, Dynamics