Business leaders who enable learning whether through regular training needs assessments or externally sourced scientific advice to support product development efforts contribute to organizational effectiveness. While the drivers of learning capacity and their effects on the business are well documented in large firms, little is known about this issue in Asian small and medium-sized enterprises ...

Advanced economies, also known as knowledge-based economies, rely their performance on high skilled workers and quick access to information and knowledge, allowing organizations to react to a competitive, rapidly changing and global environment. Innovation is recognized as a crucial factor for survival, driving the development of new or improved products, services, processes or marketing strate...

Nowadays enterprises have played an important role in China’s economic development and increasingly become the main force of China’s growing research and innovation activities. Different from some related work on developing countries’ innovation policy and strategy, the evolutionary model of secondary innovation, based on Chinese enterprises’ innovation practice, highlights the significant role...

This article describes a valid and current research area, which is the formation of organizational learning ability, perceived as a condition necessary for the survival and development of modern organizations. It refers to the issue of organic organizational structure as a factor shaping this ability. Many researchers emphasized that the organizational structure plays a key role in determining ...

This study, examines the concept of the Learning Organizations in the Greek banking sector based on ‘learning capability’, organization factors (size and formalization) and performance measures. From the analysis of the results it is shown, that the five managerial practices, necessary for organizational learning, are used on the Greek banking sector at satisfactory levels. Concerning the relat...