Organizational learning, innovativeness and performance of financial service firms in an emerging market: Examining the mediation effect of customer-focused strategy
- Publisher:
- Emerald
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Business Process Management Journal, 2021
- Issue Date:
- 2021-04-14
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Purpose -- The study investigates the extent to which organizational learning and innovativeness can improve the firms' performance through a customer-focused strategy.
Design/methodology/approach – Data was collected from Indonesian financial service firms using a questionnaire-based survey. The 157 usable survey responses were analyzed to test the proposed hypotheses using SmartPLS.
Findings – This study finds that both organizational learning and innovativeness have a
positive effect on performance. The effect of organizational learning on performance
depends on the variations of the customer-focused strategy. However, innovativeness does
not mediate through customer-focused strategy to enhance performance.
Theoretical implications -- As one of the types of dynamic capabilities, organizational learning and innovativeness are also important antecedents of performance.
Practical implications -- In firms that implement business model innovation, managers should focus on resource flexibility. Where it is responsive, managers need to be concerned with ensuring various usage of existing resources to understand the performance effectively.
Originality/value -- This study extends the business innovation model from the adaptability of customer-focused strategy. The findings confirm that organizational learning has a prominent role in meeting customer needs for a dynamic market.
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