组织学习是企业应对内外部环境变化、提升企业可持续发展能力的重要途径。为了提高学习效率,很多企业利用信息技术搭建组织学习的平台。利用结构方程模型对组织学习I、T应用与企业竞争优势之间的因果关系进行的数据分析表明,在动态环境下,组织学习是竞争优势的重要来源,但IT通过组织学习的中间干预,间接地为企业的竞争优势作出贡献。从我国不同类型企业的学习现状来看,独资和合资企业在组织学习和IT应用水平上高于国有企业,民营企业的学习方式表现出探索和开拓精神。

Organization learning is one of the most important means for business to effectively respond to the external and internal changes.There are five types of organization learning: exploration,experiment,capability adoption,competitive intelligence and knowledge diffusion.Using structural equation modeling to analyze data collected from 126 Chinese companies,the study finds out that,in a dynamic environment,organization learning is the most important source of competitive advantage.Application of information technology will contribute to a company's competitive advantage indirectly,mainly through the enhanced learning ability of employees.Among different types of companies in China,multinational and joint venture companies show higher level of organization learning capability and IT application than that of state-own enterprises.Private companies demonstrate stronger capability in exploration learning.