Continuous improvement strategies towards energy transition: The importance of individual employees' entrepreneurial orientation and learning processes
研究了一家加拿大能源企业中员工个体创业导向与组织学习的关系，发现创新和冒险倾向促进探索性学习，主动性员工更倾向利用性学习，而利用性学习对持续改进作用更大，为能源企业转型提供管理启示。
Abstract At one hand, while research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) continues to proliferate, only recently has attention been drawn to the individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) level. On the other hand, although organizational learning (OL) explains how organizations explore and exploit knowledge to enhance their innovation and performance, limited research has investigated the relationship between EO and OL. In this study, we develop and empirically test in an established Canadian energy provider a framework on the IEO‐OL‐performance relationship. We find that employees' innovative orientation and risk‐taking propensity are more positively related to exploratory learning, while proactive employees are more geared towards exploitative learning. We further unveil that exploitative learning is more positively related to continuous improvement than explorative learning. Our findings add to scant literature on the IEO‐OL‐performance relationship and provide managerial insights for energy sector firms on how IEO can assist with their transformational business strategies towards green and clean energy supply.