Tony K. Quon

The Relationship between Learning Capability and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analytic Examination.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a meta‐analysis of a subset of published empirical research papers that measure learning capability and link it to organizational performance. It also seeks to examine both financial and non‐financial performance.Design/methodology/approach – In a search of published research on learning capability and organizational performance, the authors identified 33 articles that met criteria for inclusion in the meta‐analysis. Both objective and perceptual measures of organizational performance were considered to be acceptable. The data were analyzed using the Hunter and Schmidt meta‐analysis software.Findings – The findings support a positive relationship between learning capability and organizational performance, with stronger results for non‐financial than financial performance. This has significant implications for justifying the investment in building a learning capability in organizations. Recommendations for managers are provided, such as the use of learning ...

The Organizational Learning Survey: A Re-Evaluation of Unidimensionality

An earlier study by Chakrabarty and Rogé evaluated the dimensionality of the Organizational Learning Survey for assessing the learning capability of organizations developed by Goh and Richards. In this paper, the survey was re-evaluated for unidimensionality using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Retaining 18 of the original 21 items was sufficient to establish unidimensionality. A number of different confirmatory models validated the unidimensional measurement model on two independent data sets. Implications for further empirical research using this inventory are discussed.

A Survey Of Electronic Data Interchange (Edi) In The Top Public Companies In Canada

Abstract This paper reports on management view’s of the implementation, use, and benefits of EDI systems among the top 400 public companies in Canada. The market penetration of EDI is still growing linearly. Our best estimate is that 64% of the top public companies in Canada had an EDI system as of 1999. The most popular reasons for adopting EDI in decreasing order are improved customer service, improved supplier relationship, reduced clerical error, and competitive advantage. With the exception of the latter, the first three of these are viewed also as important impacts of EDI after implementation. There were no differences between smaller and larger companies (defined as having annual sales less than or greater than

The effect of the financial crisis on enterprise risk management disclosures

500 million, respectively). Respondents generally felt that the benefits of EDI outweighed the costs of implementation. In-house staff rather than external consultants were used predominantly in the design and implementation of EDI systems. The most common problems encountered were inadequacy of resources to implement the systems, deciding which activities to include, and training. Much less common were difficulties in selling the concept to different parts of the organization.

Modelling Navigational Risk and Oil Spill Probabilities

The effect of the financial crisis on enterprise risk management (ERM) disclosures was examined through a content analysis of the 2007 and 2008 annual reports of Canadian corporations listed on the S&P TSX composite index. Fourteen types of risk were tracked and categorised by level of risk exposure, risk consequence and risk management disclosures. The total number of risk disclosures increased by 3.6% from 2007 to 2008. Changes in the disclosed levels of risk increased even less. While the levels of risk exposure increased the most for credit risk, only economic and credit risks showed more than minor increases in the disclosure of risk consequences. Overall, the 2008 financial crisis has not had a major impact on risk disclosures by non-financial Canadian corporations.

RISK ANALYSIS OF VESSEL TRAFFIC SYSTEMS

This paper examines first a statistical modelling of the number of navigational accidents (collisions, groundings and strikings) involving tankers and freighters in Canadian waters; it then looks at a direct method of modelling oil spill frequency and magnitude, given a navigational accident. The former is used to examine various hypotheses in the literature regarding the impact of various factors on navigation risk. The latter is based on a direct probability tree analysis which allows the estimation of detailed oil spill impacts by facilitating the examination of representative spill sizes.

Enterprise Risk Management and Firm Performance

A risk analysis approach to the capital planning of vessel traffic services (VTS) is embedded within the benefit-cost methodology. The method is discussed in the Canadian context, but has already been used to plan the Hong Kong VTS system. Recently, in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the US Congress asked for a study of the requirements for VTS systems in American ports and waterways, and the US Coast Guard chose to apply our risk analysis approach to their study.