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Relations Between IT and Organizational Learning Capability—Empirical Studies Among Polish Organizations

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the relation between the use of information technology (IT) and development of organizational learning capability (OLC) with regard to the intermediate role of organic structural solutions. The importance of an information system for the OLC is discussed and empirically verified (CFA was used on a sample of 212 companies). It enabled reflection on the relation between IT and OLC. In the light of previous studies a direct relation between OLC and the use of IT in organizations is neither obvious nor clear. This articles describes studies indicating that IT can have an indirect impact on the OLC through organic structural solutions. Using the OLC model, the role of organic structure in shaping the OLC is proven. Empirical research are presented, showing IT as a factor contributing to the organic structural solutions (the regression analysis was used on a sample of 105 companies).

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    In this article we provided a simplified scheme model of the OLC, the whole model is much more complex and has been presented in the works: [29, 31]. All loadings of estimated factors and measures of model fit refer to the original version of the model.

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Tworek, K., Zgrzywa-Ziemak, A. (2017). Relations Between IT and Organizational Learning Capability—Empirical Studies Among Polish Organizations. In: Wilimowska, Z., Borzemski, L., Grzech, A., Świątek, J. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 37th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2016 – Part IV. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 524. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46592-0_17

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