TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spicer,David P
AU  - Sadler-Smith,Eugene
TI  - Organizational learning in smaller manufaturing firms
SN  - 02662426
AV  - HD2341.167 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage
KW  - Firm performance
KW  - Learning orientation
KW  - Organizational learning
N2  - This article describes the development and validation of a measure of a firm's organizational learning orientation and considers the relationships between this and firm performance. The measure assesses owner-managers’ perceptions of their organizations’ orientation to learning in terms of higherorder (active) and lower-order (passive) levels of learning. Its development is a response to the criticisms that organizational learning research is beset by a paucity of valid and reliable measures to assess the ways in which organizations engage in learning at the collective level (Tsang, 1997). Data are presented from a number of samples of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the UK that indicate that the organizational learning orientation measure exhibits acceptable reliability and validity. Furthermore, a number of relationships between organizational learning and financial and non-financial performance were observed. The implications of the findings for research, policy and the management of learning within organizations are discussed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242606061836
ER  -