Organizational Efficiency and X-Inefficiency: Which Role of Learning Organization, Knowledge Transfer, and Innovation?

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Author(s): Meryem El Alaoui Amine (University Mohammed V Souissi, Morocco)and Anass Mdaghri Alaoui (University Mohammed V Agdal, Morocco)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 20
Source title: Learning Models for Innovation in Organizations: Examining Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Human Resources Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Fawzy Soliman (The University of Technology, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4884-5.ch012

Keywords: Business & Management / Business & Organizational Research / Business and Organizational Research / Business Science Reference

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The works of Leibenstein emphasize the existence of x-inefficiency in organizations that explains why firms apparently identical, with the same composition of the workforce and the same technology, are able to realize very different performance. On the basis of Leibenstein and Maital (1994), this chapter presents the sources and reasons for the persistence of x-inefficiency by mobilizing the organizational learning theory and by determining the possible strategies for the correction or the elimination of x-inefficiency by using games theory. Moreover, the establishment of a favorable climate for learning can promote knowledge transfer, which in turn helps to improve innovation, and consequently, achieving organizational efficiency.

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