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Does Organizational Learning Lead To Higher Firm Performance? An Investigation Of Chinese Listing Companies, Wencang Zhou, Huajing Hu, Xuli Shi

Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for studying organizational learning, firm innovation and firm financial performance. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines the effects of organizational learning on innovation and performance among 287 listed Chinese companies. Findings – The results indicate a positive association between organizational learning dimensions and firm performance (both objective financial performance and perceptual innovation measure). Research limitations/implications – The sample includes only firms for which secondary data are available. Different results might have been obtained if we include smaller, private firms into the sample. This paper only includes a limited number …