ESCAPING ORGANIZATIONAL MYOPIA IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXAMINATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 23 Sayı: 55, 588 - 611, 25.01.2025

Tuba Bıyıkbeyi , Hasan Sadık Tatlı

https://doi.org/10.35408/comuybd.1571534

Öz

How firms can survive and compete in dynamic environmental conditions has been debated for many years. In dynamic environments, it is vital for firms and managers to continue organizational learning to gain and maintain their competitive advantage. Organizational learning increases the firm's capacity to catch up with market developments and reduces myopia. These causal relationships, especially in reducing myopia, can be vital. Therefore, the study's main purpose is to examine the effect of changing environmental conditions on organizational learning and how this learning shapes organizational myopia. This study aimed to explore the effects of environmental dynamism on organizational learning and organizational myopia in the banking and IT sectors. The participants consisted of middle and lower-level managers working in the sector, and the data was collected using the convenience sampling method. 481 people from the banking and IT sectors participated in the study. The analyses in the study were carried out using SPSS 25 and PROCESS macro programs. Mediation models were used in the testing of the hypotheses. As a result of the mediation analyses, the majority of our hypotheses were supported. According to the findings, environmental dynamism positively affects organizational learning. In addition, it was observed that organizational myopia decreases as the level of organizational learning increases. However, the direct effect of environmental dynamism on organizational myopia was not found to be significant. However, when the mediation effect of organizational learning was evaluated, it was determined that environmental dynamism indirectly affects organizational myopia. This result reveals that the effect of environmental dynamism is shaped by organizational learning and indirectly affects organizational myopia. In conclusion, this research emphasizes that it is important for organizations operating in the banking and finance sectors to develop their learning capacities to be successful in dynamic environmental conditions. Organizational learning should be encouraged to keep up with environmental changes and avoid blindness. In light of these findings, it is recommended that managers in the sector evaluate environmental dynamism as an advantage by adopting long-term strategies.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Organizational learning, Environmental dynamism, Organisational Myopia, Banking sector, IT sector

DİNAMİK ÇEVRELERDE ÖRGÜTSEL MİYOPİDEN KURTULMAK: ÖRGÜTSEL ÖĞRENME AÇISINDAN İNCELEME

Öz

Dinamik çevre koşullarında organizasyonların nasıl hayatta kalabilecekleri ve nasıl rekabet edecekleri uzun yıllardır tartışma konusu olmuştur. Dinamik çevrelerde organizasyonların ve yöneticilerin örgütsel öğrenmeyi sürdürmeleri firmanın rekabet avantajı kazanması ve bu avantajı sürdürmesi için hayati bir faktör olarak görülmektedir. Örgütsel öğrenme organizasyonun piyasadaki gelişmeleri yakalama kapasitesini arttırırken körlüğü de azaltmaktadır. Bu nedensel ilişkilerin, özellikle körlüğün azaltılması hayati olabilir. Bu nedenle çalışmanın temel amacı, değişen çevresel koşulların örgütsel öğrenme üzerindeki etkisini ve bu öğrenmenin örgütsel miyopiyi nasıl şekillendirdiğini incelemektir. Bu çalışma, bankacılık ve bilişim sektörlerinde çevresel dinamizmin örgütsel öğrenme ve örgütsel miyopi üzerindeki etkilerini keşfetmeyi amaçlamıştır. Katılımcılar, sektörde görev yapan orta ve alt kademe yöneticilerden oluşmuş, veriler kolayda örnekleme yöntemiyle toplanmıştır. Araştırmaya bankacılık ve bilişim sektörlerinden 481 kişi katılmıştır. Araştırmada analizler SPSS 25 ve PROCESS makro programları kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Hipotezlerin testinde aracılık modelleri kullanılmıştır. Aracılık analizleri sonucunda hipotezlerimizin çoğunluğu desteklenmiştir. Elde edilen bulgulara göre, çevresel dinamizm örgütsel öğrenmeyi pozitif yönde etkilemektedir. Ayrıca, örgütsel öğrenme düzeyi arttıkça örgütsel miyopinin azaldığı görülmüştür. Ancak, çevresel dinamizmin örgütsel miyopi üzerindeki doğrudan etkisi anlamlı bulunmamıştır. Bununla birlikte, örgütsel öğrenmenin aracılık etkisi değerlendirildiğinde, çevresel dinamizmin örgütsel miyopiyi dolaylı olarak etkilediği tespit edilmiştir. Bu sonuç, çevresel dinamizmin etkisinin örgütsel öğrenme yoluyla şekillendiğini ve dolaylı yoldan örgütsel miyopiyi etkilediğini ortaya koymaktadır. Sonuç olarak, bu araştırma, bankacılık ve bilişim sektörlerinde faaliyet gösteren kuruluşların dinamik çevre koşullarında başarılı olabilmeleri için öğrenme kapasitelerini geliştirmelerinin önemli olduğunu vurgulamaktadır. Özellikle çevresel değişimlere ayak uydurabilmek ve körlükten kaçınmak için örgütsel öğrenmenin teşvik edilmesi gerekmektedir. Bu bulgular ışığında, sektördeki yöneticilere uzun vadeli strateji benimseyerek çevresel dinamizmi bir avantaj olarak değerlendirmeleri önerilmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Örgütsel öğrenme, Çevresel dinamizm, Örgütsel miyopi, Bankacılık sektörü, Bilişim sektörü

Etik Beyan

Etik kuruldan almış olduğumuz onay formunu, bir önceki bölümde bulunan dosyalar kısmına yükledik. İyi çalışmalar dileriz.

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