The Effect of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Organizational Learning on Innovation in Industrial Companies

Subject Areas : Industrial Management

Sadegh Feizollahi ¹ , Alireza Shirmohammadi ² , Addel Fatemi ³

1 - Lecturer, MS in Industrial Management, Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Mehran Branch
2 - Lecturer, MS in Industrial Management, Ilam Payam Noor University. Ilam, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor in Statistics, Islamic Azad University, Sannandej Branch, Sanandaj, Iran

Received: 2018-01-07 Accepted : 2018-01-07 Published : 2013-12-22

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Abstract :

Many scholars have suggested that both Total Quality Management (TQM) and organizational learning can individually and effectively promote innovation. However, the question remains as to whether a relationship exists between TQM and organizational learning. This study has two main goals: (1) to determine the relationships between TQM, organizational learning, and innovation performance (2) to test a proposed model explaining the relationships among TQM, organizational learning, and innovation performance through empirical examination.Taking into consideration a sample of industrial companies and using a questionnaire for collecting data, this study examines three hypotheses and tests the proposed model. The principal findings of this study are as follows; (1) SEM analysis shows that the TQM-organizational learning-innovation performance model has goodness-of-fit, (2) TQM has significant and positive effects on organizational learning, and (3) TQM and organizational learning have both significant and positive effects on innovation performance.  

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