Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Volume 68, Issue 2, Pages 408-417Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2019.2917430
Keywords
Organizations; Banking; Economics; Mathematical model; Knowledge based systems; Ambidexterity; business performance; financial sector; knowledge-based processes; organizational learning culture; Spain
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- Fundacion Seneca Grant [20562/EE/18]
- Spanish Ministry for Economy, Industry and Competitiveness [ECO2017-88987-R]
- Banco Mare Nostrum (BMN)
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This paper examines the relationship between performance and learning culture within banks, highlighting the importance of employee learning for bank performance. The results suggest that learning helps banks remain competitive in the dynamic global business environment, influencing economic recovery and socio-economic development.
Banks are the backbone of the financial sector and catalysts in the economic development of any country. Current changes in their global business ecosystem make knowledge of about the fund-supplying and fund-demanding parties of the society a key resource for the fulfillment of banks investment and saving functions. This paper addresses the relationship between the performance and a learning culture that is supported by knowledge processes within the organization. Given the relevance of this subject for organizations from most knowledge-intensive domains, this research has focused on the Spanish banking sector. Using a structural equation model, feedback received from 215 employees from 142 individual branches from a major banking institution in Spain is studied. The results of the data analysis show that in addition to maximizing on what is already known about the customer base, employees learning about the potential new stakeholders and also about the internal strategies, tools, and techniques is directly related to the banks performance, which, in turn, influences the economic recovery and socio-economic development. Results support that an active pursuit of learning within the context of the organization is required for banks to remain competitive in the dynamic, global business ecosystem, where international, national, and local banking sectors operate.
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