Yangcheng Hu
School of Business Administration, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang, 30099, People�s Republic of China
ABSTRACT
Prior studies which have examined the relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and performance have mainly focused on for-profit organizations. This is one of the first few studies that have explicitly modeled and empirically tested the relationship between EO and performance of Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs). Based on a survey conducted in China, 51 usable questionnaires were returned from different categories of NPOs. Using regression analysis, the relationship between EO and NPOs performance and the possible mediating effect of Organizational Learning (OL) were investigated. The research results indicated that EO can positively and significantly affect NPOs performance and OL fully mediated the relationship between EO and performance. This paper not only adds to the still limited research of EO and OL in the nonprofit context but also provides implications for NPOs practitioners as to how to improve organizational performance.
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Yangcheng Hu, 2013. Role of Organizational Learning in the Relationship between Entrepreneurial
Orientation and Performance of Nonprofit Organizations. Journal of Applied Sciences, 13: 2795-2800.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.2795.2800
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.2795.2800
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.2795.2800
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.2795.2800
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