| dc.description.abstract | Organizations are faced with competitive and changeable environments which
demand more prepared employees to successfully cope with these current and future
challenges (Oswick, Grant, Michelson, and Wailes, 2005). Organizations, as a way to cope
with more hostile environments, may foster individual learning, intrapreneurship, and
organizational learning within their employees in order to potentially increase the
organizational level of competitiveness. In other words, individual learning,
intrapreneurship, and organizational learning may help organizations increase their levels
of productivity and be better prepared to face uncertain scenarios.
The purpose of this study was to examine the path of relationships among
Environmental Hostility, Individual Learning, Intrapreneurship, and Organizational
Learning for two selected mining companies in Chile. A survey instrument was applied to
383 participants who worked in the mining companies. Structural Equation Modeling was
the statistical technique utilized to examine if the collected data supported the
researcher?s proposed model. None of the models - the researcher?s proposed model, a proposed model based
on Exploratory Factor Analysis, and a proposed model based on AMOS; were considered
as confirmed models. For this reason, four possible arguments were elaborated to explain
why the data did not fit any of the models.
First, there is a lack of empirical support of the potential relationships among the
construct/variables of the proposed model. Second, this study is a pioneering work in
examining Environmental Hostility, Individual Learning, Intrapreneurship, and
Organizational Learning altogether. Third, previous studies related to the
construct/variables of this study were mainly conducted in the United States and
Australia. Fourth, and finally, the social and economic scenarios that Chile faced during
the last century were very different than the social and economic situations confronted by
the United States in the same period. | en |
