The Effects of Organizational Learning on Competitive Advantages-The Dynamic Capability Perspective

• Main Authors: Shiang-Yen Wang, 王祥彥
• Other Authors: Yuh-Yuan Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6jkzud

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 企業管理學系 === 95 === In the case of the interior and exterior environmental transition, enterprises have to actively adapt to the rapid surrounding change for better development. They may then make the transformation to adapt to the changing environmental conditions. Accordingly, the capacity of how a company to acquire knowledge and develop its organization is a critical index. This index indicates that organizations should make efforts to transform individual knowledge into corporate knowledge. That is, Organizations must discover, search, refine, modify, share and reuse interior and exterior knowledge to make them more adaptable to environments as well as improve their capabilities by means of those concepts of exploration and exploitation. In short, dynamic capabilities imply that organizations have the ability to adapt to the change of environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to discuss how organizations utilize organizational learning and dynamic capabilities to develop the unique competitive advantage as well as to examine the moderating effects of knowledge characteristics between organizational learning and dynamic capabilities. In this study, 1368 questionnaires were mailed to the senior managers of manufacturing firms in Taiwan. One hundreds and fifty-two valid responses were collected. The result of this study indicates that: (1) Organizational learning has significant positive effects on dynamic capabilities. (2) Dynamic capabilities have significant influences on competitive advantages, but organizational capabilities only have no significant effect on efficiency. (3) The effects of organizational learning are significant to competitive advantages. (4) Explicit knowledge has moderate effects between organizational learning and dynamic capabilities. This research suggests that organizations should actively find the niches and consider the essentiality of transformation in response to the changing environment. Organizations have to engage in innovating, flexibility, and improve efficiency in order to ensure the sustained development.