Assessing the links between organisational cultures and unlearning capability: evidence from the Spanish automotive components industry

Within the current business environment, knowledge management, organisational learning and unlearning mechanisms are becoming critical factors in the process of reaching lasting competitive advantages. Our research model employs the competing values framework (Cameron and Quinn, 1999) to empirically...

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Autores: Leal Rodríguez, Antonio Luis, Ariza Montes, José Antonio, Morales Fernández, Emilio, Eldridge, Stephen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Repositorio:Brújula
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uloyola.es:20.500.12412/1329
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/1329
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Organisational unlearning
Organisational culture
Automotive components industry
Cultural typologies
Partial least squares
PLS
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Sumario:Within the current business environment, knowledge management, organisational learning and unlearning mechanisms are becoming critical factors in the process of reaching lasting competitive advantages. Our research model employs the competing values framework (Cameron and Quinn, 1999) to empirically assess the influence of the firm’s own cultural typology on organisational unlearning. Our hypotheses are tested using a sample of 145 firms drawn from the Spanish automotive components manufacturing sector. The relationships between the constructs are assessed through the use of partial least squares (PLS) path-modelling, a variance-based structural equation modelling technique. The outcomes reveal that certain types of culture exert a higher influence on unlearning than others. This suggests in turn that some cultural typologies are better positioned to face the current turbulent situation than others.