Organizational Learning, Strategic Renewal, and Organizational Survival: The moderating role of Environmental Complexity

Abstract

In today’s complex environment, effective learning across organization is an esstential element for better organizational performance and survival. Founding on the resource dependence theory and utilizing the data acqiured from 476 managerial level employees of 120 private sector hospitals, our study validated the fact that organizational learning has a significant positive impact upon organizational survival. The relationship between orgnaizational learning and organizational survival is mediated by strategic renewal. Moreover, environmental complexity negatively moderates the relationship between organizational learning and survival. This study contributes to management literature by elaborating the underlying conversion mechanisms of organizational learning into organizational survival by considering the moderating role of environmental complexity and mediating role of strategic renewal in private sector hospitals of Pakistan.