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Making the Business Case for the Learning Organization Concept

Alexander E. Ellinger

Baiyin Yang

Shelly W. Howton

The problem and the solution. Organizations that embrace strategies consistent with the learning organization literature are thought to achieve improved performance. Yet few empirical studies have examined the relationship between the learning organization concept and firms' financial performance. To assess this association, managerial responses to the Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire along with objective measures of firms' financial performance were obtained.

Key Words: learning organization • Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) • organizational learning • financial performance • performance improvement • learning strategy

Advances in Developing Human Resources, Vol. 5, No. 2, 163-172 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1523422303005002004


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