Understanding How Organizational Culture Typology Relates to Organizational Unlearning and Innovation Capabilities

This study focuses on the link between organizational unlearning and innovation capabilities and explores how this relationship might be managed within an innovative firm. In order to gain a clearer insight into to the influence of a firm’s culture on organizational unlearning and its innovation cap...

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Authors: Leal Rodríguez, Antonio Luis, Eldridge, Stephen, Ariza Montes, José Antonio, Morales Fernández, Emilio
Format: article
Publication Date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Repository:Brújula
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uloyola.es:20.500.12412/1314
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/1314
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Organizational culture
Cultural typologies
Unlearning
Innovation
Partial least squares
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Summary:This study focuses on the link between organizational unlearning and innovation capabilities and explores how this relationship might be managed within an innovative firm. In order to gain a clearer insight into to the influence of a firm’s culture on organizational unlearning and its innovation capabilities, a research model was developed that employs the Competing Values Framework (Cameron and Quinn, 1999). In this model, the influence of a firm’s cultural typology on unlearning and innovation is conceptualized and hypotheses are developed. The model was tested empirically using a sample of 145 firms drawn from the Spanish automotive components manufacturing sector, and the relationships between the constructs were assessed using the partial least squares path-modeling approach. The results reveal that each distinct organizational culture exerts a different impact on the innovation and unlearning outcome variables. In particular, an adhocracy culture is associated closely with innovation capabilities while a market culture exerts a significant influence on organizational unlearning.