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Relationships among market orientation, learning orientation, organizational innovation and organizational performance: An empirical study in the Pearl River Delta region of China
XIE Hongming, CHEN Chunhui, LIU Changyong
Front. Bus. Res. China. 2007, 1 (2): 222-253.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11782-007-0014-z
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among market orientation, learning orientation, organizational innovation and organizational performance through a structural equation modeling approach. This study uses a sample of 143 companies in the Pearl River Delta region of China. Results show that (1) market orientation has no positive direct impact on organizational performance; (2) market orientation has a direct impact on learning orientation; (3) learning orientation has a direct impact on administrative and technical innovation; (4) market orientation has a direct impact on organizational innovation by learning orientation; (5) administrative innovation has a positive direct impact on organizational performance while technical innovation does not impact on organizational performance directly; (6) technical innovation has a positive impact on administrative innovation; (7) learning orientation has an indirect impact on organizational performance through influencing organizational innovation; (8) market orientation has impact on learning orientation, which has an impact on organizational innovation, which in turn has an impact on organizational performance. Managerial implications are discussed, along with suggestions for further research.
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The culture of learning organizations in Chinese state-owned and privately-owned enterprises: An empirical study
WANG Xiaohui, YANG Baiyin
Front. Bus. Res. China. 2007, 1 (2): 275-299.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11782-007-0016-x
By using a Western concept the instrument called dimensions of learning organization questionnaire (DLOQ), and the data collected from 919 employees in nine companies located in Guangdong Province, China, the present empirical study explores the culture of learning organizations in Chinese business settings. Findings suggest that the DLOQ is applicable to the context of China as well, and those demographic variables, such as age and educational level, together with the types of ownership of Chinese companies, such as state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately-owned enterprises (POEs), suggest differences in the culture of learning organizations. Results also indicate that the learning organization culture of a firm has strongly positive impact on employees job satisfaction and perceived organizational performance. Two implications should be noted. First, as employees in middle age and with college education show the strongest sense of improving the learning culture, it can be inferred that demographic characters and groups may influence the organization s learning culture differently. Second, as POEs have a better learning atmosphere than SOEs, it can be inferred that POEs have a stronger competitiveness than SOEs in terms of learning ability and organizational performance. To indigenize the Western construct and instrument of learning organizations, the present study, as an exploratory research, gives substantial knowledge on the subject and seeks to fill the gap in the literature, despite the limitations of cultural nuances and a narrowly-concentrated sample.
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The rational role of government in the process of attracting foreign direct investment in China
LIU Ke, GAO Mengtao
Front. Bus. Res. China. 2007, 1 (2): 319-332.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11782-007-0018-8
Based on consumer and manufacturer behaviors, this research describes local governments unique role in the process of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) . Drawing from a sample of 28 provinces plus four cities throughout China from 1998 to 2004, we construct an econometric model in this paper to analyze the common factors that influenced the result of attracting FDI . The main finding of this paper is that in the process of attracting FDI , local governments play a decisive role, which puts consumer surplus, producer surplus and the other social welfare into a basket to construct its plan for attracting FDI . The common factors which influence the result of attracting FDI are local costs, the number of foreign-invested company, the market share of local companies, and the market share of foreign-invested companies.
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