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Organizational trust and performance: Is organizational learning capability a missing link?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2014

Jacob Guinot ,
Ricardo Chiva  and
Fermín Mallén
Ricardo Chiva*
Affiliation:
Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
*
Corresponding author: rchiva@uji.es
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Abstract

Despite the fact that the majority of studies have suggested that it is beneficial for organizational performance, some empirical evidence has generated contradictory results concerning these variables. For this reason, this research attempts to look in-depth at the relationships between trust and organizational performance, using organizational learning capability as an explanatory variable. To confirm the hypotheses, the structural equation technique was used on data from a survey carried out in Spanish firms with recognized excellence in human resources management. The results obtained show that, in these firms, organizational learning capability mediates in the relationship between trust and organizational performance.

Keywords

organizational learning capabilityorganizational trustorganizational learningtrust
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Research Article
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Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , September 2013 , pp. 559 - 582
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