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Publication date: 22 February 2008

Su‐Chao Chang and Ming‐Shing Lee

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of knowledge accumulation capability on organizational innovation. This study also attempts to find if interaction between

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Purpose

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of knowledge accumulation capability on organizational innovation. This study also attempts to find if interaction between external environment or organizational culture and knowledge accumulation ability will influence organizational innovation.

Design/methodology/approach

A quantitative research design was employed. A total of 1,000 questionnaires were mailed out and received 129 valid replies.

Findings

The research results indicate that the capability to obtain knowledge can positively and significantly affect knowledge administrative and technical innovation. Knowledge expansion capability can positively and significantly affect administrative innovation. In addition, external environment and organizational culture have significant interaction effects with knowledge accumulation capability on organizational innovation.

Research limitations/implications

This research discussed only some organizational layers like knowledge accumulation, external environment and organizational culture without any further research efforts aimed at any other facets.

Practical implications

With the rapid change of markets and the intense industry competition, business management is deeply affected by any change in the external environment.

Originality/value

Because there is no existing literature on the use of external environment and organizational culture as moderators to explore the effect of knowledge accumulation capability on organizational innovation, this paper provides a basis for future studies that examine the relationship between these factors.

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Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 12 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1367-3270

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Publication date: 20 March 2007

Su‐Chao Chang and Ming‐Shing Lee

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship among leadership, organizational culture, the operation of learning organization and employees' job satisfaction.

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Purpose

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship among leadership, organizational culture, the operation of learning organization and employees' job satisfaction.

Design/methodology/approach

A quantitative research design was employed. A total of 1,000 questionnaires were mailed out and received 134 valid replies.

Findings

The research results indicate that the various operation extents of learning organization have significant difference under the dimensions of leadership, organizational culture and the operation of learning organization. Both leadership and organizational culture can positively and significantly affect the operation of learning organization. In addition, the operation of learning organizations has a significantly positive effect on employees' job satisfaction.

Research limitations/implications

Although this research is adopted with questionnaire investigation and concise questions to the best of one's ability it is still not known whether the respondents can substantially understand the original contextual meaning of the questionnaire to show the results with a true reflection.

Practical implications

The paper shows that, with the increasing number of knowledge workers in Taiwan, it is impossible for business administrators to satisfy employees' demands by means of conventional leadership. Instead, they are required to enhance their own skills in transformational leadership and, through setting a good example to employees, encouraging innovation and learning activities, developing employees' potentials, giving education and training activities, etc, more money incentives, this is necessary to keep people with excellent talents.

Originality/value

The paper adopts the experimental methodology to observe the learning achievement within the business organizations in Taiwan. Also, an attempt is made to make business organizations aware of the effect of organization learning activities in Taiwan and the job satisfaction of employee.

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The Learning Organization, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0969-6474

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Publication date: 20 December 2018

Rassel Kassem, Mian Ajmal, Angappa Gunasekaran and Petri Helo

The purpose of this paper is to discover the impact of different dimensions of organizational culture (mission culture, adaptability culture, involvement culture and consistency…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discover the impact of different dimensions of organizational culture (mission culture, adaptability culture, involvement culture and consistency culture) on business excellence results criteria (customer results, people results, society results and business results) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and explore the moderating role of information and communication technology (ICT) use in both service and manufacturing industries.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected by questionnaire from 448 managers in nine companies that have won the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award in the last three years. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the data.

Findings

Organizational culture is significantly related to business excellence. However, these effects varied for different business excellence criteria. Three organizational culture types had a significant positive role in achieving excellent customer-related results. All four types of organizational culture had a positive role in achieving excellent people-related results. Only two culture types had significant role in achieving excellent society-related results. Business results were positively related to a balance between the four types of organizational culture. ICT use moderated the relationship between organizational culture and results related to customers, people and business, but not society.

Research limitations/implications

This study had some conceptual limitations. In particular, it considered the organizational culture as four types in the research model, but without structuring the indices under each type. It also had some methodological limitations. It was cross-sectional and used a self-administered questionnaire, which means that no causal relationships can be implied, and there may have been some bias in responding.

Originality/value

This is one of the first studies that investigate the relationship between organizational culture and business excellence in UAE excellence award-winning companies.

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Benchmarking: An International Journal, vol. 26 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1463-5771

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