The Impact of Management Innovation, Organizational Inertia, and Organizational Learning on Organizational Performance: A Case Study of the Manufacturing Industry in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China

Abstract

Enterprise innovation has always been a hot issue in enterprise development and theoretical research. China has now entered a new stage of development. The implementation of innovative strategies and the acceleration of the construction of an innovative country have made innovation even more critical to business operations and development. Technological limited resources of the enterprise and the uncertainty in the research and development process, the implementation of technological innovation will face great unknowns and challenges. The successful implementation of management innovation must effectively integrate the existing knowledge and resources of the enterprise. Organizational learning is the process of using existing resources and learning new knowledge. The development of management innovation will effectively promote the enterprise to carry out organizational learning. Only when the organic combination of management innovation and organizational learning is realized, can the organization’s competitive advantage be enhanced and the enterprise’s own performance improved. This study’s purpose is attempts to explore the relationship and provide data support for it, and then puts forward management suggestions for enterprises trying to improve organizational performance by implementing management innovation. After sorting out the relevant literature, for the research design, this study takes organizational learning as an intermediary variable and constructs a theoretical model among management innovation, organizational inertia, organizational learning, and organizational performance; uses SPSS and AMOS software to conduct an empirical test on the collected 2407 valid questionnaires. The findings and the conclusions are management innovation and organizational inertia influence organizational performance, and organizational learning has a mediating role. Finally, management suggestions are put forward for enterprises to improve organizational performance by implementing management innovation.