Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Professor of management and accounting of shahid Beheshti University
2 Msc, The Institute for Management and Planning studies, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Information technology capabilities have an important role in a fast and changing environment. Organizations having IT technologies and abilities to utilizing them can be pioneer in acquisition, maintaining, and transferring knowledge. Technology highly affects quantity and quality of learning and learning itself, is a key factor for organizational improvement. This study investigates the influence of information technology on organizational performance through the capacity of knowledge attraction and organizational learning. This study is a descriptive-survey and categorized as a practical research. The statistical population includes water and waste water, building, Nano, and telecommunications industries. We considered 203 firms as a sample and used questionnaire to collect the required data. To analyze data, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling technique was used. As a whole, the results show that information technology capabilities effect on organizational performance indirectly through organizational learning. On the other hand, it has no impact on organizational performance through knowledge absorptive capacity.
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