The prime aim of this study, is to find out if the Commercial Banks in Almafarq Governorate in Jordan have the suitable and healthy learning environment through the presence of the learning organization dimensions, which were identified by (Watkins and Marsick 1996, 2003), The Commercial Banks operating in the governorate of Mafraq were chosen to be the focus of this study. The population of the study consisted of all employees of these commercial banks, and because of their limited number, the researchers, took all of them as the entire population of the study to make results more credible and tenable. The major finding of this study states that, Commercial Banks in the city of Mafraq are learning organizations, but the presence of learning environment is just slightly above average, and therefore, the management of these branches needs extra efforts in the future to nurture the learning culture.
<p>This study aims at studying the mediating role of corporate characteristics on the relationship between the strategic learning and the competitive capabilities of the Telecommunications Companies in Jordan.</p><p>The population of this research are the three major telecommunications companies in Jordan, namely, Zain, Orange and Umniah. The study respondents consisted of those who occupy different managerial positions at these companies, for they have acquired enough experience that makes them eligible to answer the questionnaire.</p><p>The researchers adopted the construct of Siren (2012) in order to measure the independent variable, which is strategic learning, and made use of the studies of Zhang and Sharifi (2000) and Toni (2001) to measure the competitive capabilities. A total of 278 questionnaires were distributed, out of which 195 were retrieved, but only 150 questionnaires were valid for statistical analysis.</p><p>The major finding of the study is: strategic knowledge distribution and the implementation of strategic knowledge, mediated by company’s age and type of service, do have an impact on the competitive capabilities of the researched companies. However, the creation and the interpretation of strategic knowledge mediated by the same variables have statistically insignificant impact on the competitive capabilities.</p>
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