Competition Shadow relation with Organizational Learning
Keywords:
Competition Shadow, Organizational Learning, High Performance FirmsAbstract
The paper predicts the relationship between organizational learning
and competition shadow. Competition shadow has a high level of
uncertainty in market specially firms associated with technology and
such uncertainty causes anxiety, a situation in which firm are in panic
due to very high pressure of do or die, as the competition is cut throat
competition, in such circumstances it is predicted that high
organizational learning will occur which will equip individual not only
to achieve higher performance in future but will help them to tackle
ongoing competition shadow. Therefore, competition shadow and
organizational learning are perceived to have effect on each other.
Through archival research from books, journals and researches is been
done to develop proposition for empirical testing for future research.
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