The Effectiveness of Social Capital in Organizational Learning: An Empirical Study of ITRI R&D Consortia

• Main Authors: Chih-Hao, Tsai, 蔡志豪
• Other Authors: 方世杰
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99128021817623980590

碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理科學研究所 === 90 === Abstract The creation of knowledge can not only establish great competitive power to an organization, but also being a key to extend an organization’s life by accumulated it. An efficient and effective organization has to possess “knowledge management”, which means to record, arrange, store and extend the knowledge in order to gain the competitive advantage and cannot been substituted. Due to the science and technology develop rapidly, the single market have already being replaced by the global market. Under the high pressure, organizations have to gain the external knowledge and technology through the internal cooperation more rapidly and effectively. The necessary factors for organization. However, based on the cost, strategy or learning, the alliance of interorganizational cooperating will make the interorganizational relationship more complicated.By leveraging these relationships, an organization can accelerate to obtain and transfer the external knowledge, and then gets relational rents. As a result, the process is called “the effectiveness of social capital in organizational learning performance”. Besides, the learning competence will effect the result that an organization makes external knowledge internally. On the other hand, knowledge receiver should absorb, adapt, spread and use knowledge in producing and revolution by the method of learning, so that organization can enhance its competitive advantage and performance. According to the subject we have discussed above , we will probe into: what is the social capital of an organization? What is the meaning of organizational learning? How will the organizational learning performance be influenced by social capital and organizational learning competence? which role that organizational learning competence should play between social capital and organizational learning performance? The empirical results include that: (1)the connection with other partners, trust in ITRI R＆D consortia, and recognition between partners can raise the organizational learning performance (2)organizational learning competence have the positive and direct effect on the organizational learning performance. (3) the degree of the learning competence will influence the process of organization to enhance its learning performance significantly. Key words: social capital of organization; learning competence; organizational learning performance.