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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizational unlearning, innovation outcomes, and performance
T2 - the moderating effect of firm size
AU - Leal-Rodríguez, Antonio Luis
AU - Eldridge, Stephen
AU - Roldan, Jose Luis
AU - Leal-Millán, Antonio Genaro
AU - Ortega-Gutiérrez, Jaime
PY - 2015/4
Y1 - 2015/4
N2 - Purpose of the researchMany studies uphold innovation as a key factor in creating and sustaining a firm's competitive advantage. This research explores this topic by developing the links between a firm's innovation outcomes, overall performance, and process of organizational unlearning. This study empirically tests the mediating role of innovation outcomes in the relationship between organizational unlearning and overall performance. Furthermore, this study recognizes the moderating role of firm size in reducing the strong link between organizational unlearning and innovation outcomes.MethodologyThis study constructs a conditional process model and uses a sample of 145 firms from Spanish automotive components manufacturing sector. This study employs variance-based structural equation modeling and the PROCESS tool to analyze data.Principal results:Results show that innovation outcomes partially mediate organizational unlearning influence on overall performance, and that firm size negatively affects this indirect effect.Major conclusionsFindings can guide managers to establish policies that foster unlearning, allow for new knowledge, and enable innovation, which may in turn enhance firm performance.
AB - Purpose of the researchMany studies uphold innovation as a key factor in creating and sustaining a firm's competitive advantage. This research explores this topic by developing the links between a firm's innovation outcomes, overall performance, and process of organizational unlearning. This study empirically tests the mediating role of innovation outcomes in the relationship between organizational unlearning and overall performance. Furthermore, this study recognizes the moderating role of firm size in reducing the strong link between organizational unlearning and innovation outcomes.MethodologyThis study constructs a conditional process model and uses a sample of 145 firms from Spanish automotive components manufacturing sector. This study employs variance-based structural equation modeling and the PROCESS tool to analyze data.Principal results:Results show that innovation outcomes partially mediate organizational unlearning influence on overall performance, and that firm size negatively affects this indirect effect.Major conclusionsFindings can guide managers to establish policies that foster unlearning, allow for new knowledge, and enable innovation, which may in turn enhance firm performance.
KW - Organizational unlearning
KW - Innovation outcomes
KW - Business performance
KW - Firm size
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.11.032
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.11.032
M3 - Journal article
VL - 68
SP - 803
EP - 809
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
SN - 0148-2963
IS - 4
ER -