Aprendizaje organizativo y creación de valor en las relaciones fabricante-distribuidor

  1. López Sánchez, José Ángel
  2. Santos Vijande, María Leticia
  3. Trespalacios Gutiérrez, Juan Antonio
Revista:
Cuadernos de economía y dirección de la empresa

ISSN: 1138-5758

Año de publicación: 2010

Número: 42

Páginas: 35-74

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/S1138-5758(10)70003-7 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumen

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of organizational learning (OL) in customer value creation. Thus, firstly, a literature review about the latent factors mentioned before is carried out. Next, a conceptual model is outlined, where the dyadic relationship between manufacturers and their principal distributor is adopted as unit of analysis. Then, we move on with the study of the data obtained in the field work. At this point the reliability and validity of the OL process and value creating functions (direct and indirect) is examined to, immediately, analyse the causal connections of the specified structural model. The empirical results reveal that the manufacturer's OL process is a direct and positive antecedent of value creation, considered from a functionalist perspective, and business performance.

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