The Influence of Learning Organization on Organizational Innovation and Organizational Performance Relationship: The Case of Ecology Industry

Kuan-Hung Chen, Jau-Shyong Wang, Ming-Hung Lin, Wan-Yu Chang

Ekoloji, 2018, Issue 106, Pages: 329-335, Article No: e106080

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Abstract

Organizational learning could enhance organizational innovation to become the persistent source of competitive advantages in ecology industry. Continuous innovation could result in good organizational performance, and a successful enterprise would be a learning enterprise. For this reason, learning organization is a strategy of corporate competitive advantages in ecology industry. With literature review, the contents and evaluation of learning organization, organizational innovation, and organizational performance are discussed in this study to establish the conceptual research structure and explain the operational definitions of dimensions and variables. Taking supervisors and employees of ecology industry in Kaohsiung Taiwan as the research object, the questionnaire survey is used for collecting data to analyze the effect of learning organization on organizational innovation and organizational performance. The research conclusions are summarized as below. 1. Learning organization shows significantly positive effects on organizational innovation. 2. Organizational innovation reveals remarkably positive effects on organizational performance. 3. Learning organization appears notably positive effects on organizational performance.

Keywords

learning organization, organizational innovation, organizational performance, ecology industry

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