Antecedents Of Copability And Its Effect On Learning Organization (An Empirical Study At a Life Insurance Company)

摘要

This research is focused on the role of copability (cope-ability), namely the ability to cope with internal problems, on the development or the transformation of organizations into learning organizations. Building learning organizations, researchers usually link organizational adaptability and the dynamic organizational routines, that is formed from ostensive and performative routines. This research investigates the impact of adaptability, ostensive routines, and performative routines on the copability of the firm and how their copability affects learning organization. With the participation of 205 respondents of the middle-top management team, taken from a life insurance company and its agencies, this study reveals that ostensive routines and performative routines are the antecedents of copability, and copability has a positive effect on the building and/or transforming organizations into learning organizations. But organizational adaptability does not have a positive effect on the copability of the firm.