The effects of organizational learning capacity on firm innovative performance

Researchers have begun to concentrate on the definition of organizational learning, the dimensions of organizational learning and how to develop the organizational learning capacity, because recent studies have found organizational learning to be a key factor in firm performance [2], ,[3], ,[6], ,[7], . Most of these researches have defined organizational learning as detecting error and fixing process. In addition, organizational learning capacity have been described as improvement of firm performance over time [10], ,[23]. Although the effects of organizational learning and organizational learning capacity have been examined by so many researches, there is no enough literature on the relationship between organizational learning capacity and innovation performance. This survey aims to fill that gap in literature by examining the effect of organizational learning capacity on firm innovative performance.The survey is conducted on 199 middle and senior managers of firms operating in metal industry in Marmara Region of Turkey. The obtained data from the questionnaires are analyzed through the SPSS statistical packaged software. Descriptive analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation and regression analyses are used to evaluate the data. Analyses results revealed that two dimensions of organizational learning capacity (system orientation and knowledge acquisition-utilization orientation) affects firm innovative performance positively.