Volume 3, Issue 2 (2013)
ORMR 2013, 3(2): 111-130 |
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1- Assistant Professor, Management department, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
2- MA. of Industrial Management, University of Guilan, Faculty of Literature and Humanities
3- Master of Industrial Management, University of Guilan, Faculty of Literature and Humanities
4- Assistant Professor, University of Guilan, Management department, University of Guilan, Faculty of Literature and Humanities
2- MA. of Industrial Management, University of Guilan, Faculty of Literature and Humanities
3- Master of Industrial Management, University of Guilan, Faculty of Literature and Humanities
4- Assistant Professor, University of Guilan, Management department, University of Guilan, Faculty of Literature and Humanities
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Error management culture is emerging concept which facilitates transferring and sharing the knowledge which obtained from organizational errors among employees and organizational units. This culture leads to improve learning processes among organizational units which denotes the concept of absorptive capacity. Knowledge gained from errors leads to improve organizational innovation which upgrade long-term organizational performance. This study examined the relationship between error management culture and organizational performance with consideration of the absorptive capacity role and innovative performance. All managers of pharmaceutical companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange were selected as statistical society for this survey. Hypotheses were tested based on 153 collected questionnaires by structural equation modeling and regression analysis. Findings prove a positive relationship between variables. Absorptive capacity and innovative performance play the roles of mediators between error management culture and organizational performance.
Keywords: Error management culture, Knowledge absorptive capacity, Knowledge transfer, Innovative performance, Organizational Performance
Article Type: scientific research |
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Received: 2013/06/10 | Accepted: 2014/05/6 | Published: 2014/12/22
Received: 2013/06/10 | Accepted: 2014/05/6 | Published: 2014/12/22
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