The Influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Organizational Learning to Core Competence and Performance: A Survey of 210 Companies From Center, South and North China

Under dynamic environment, entrepreneurial orientation is taken as firm's popular pattern of strategy, and organizational learning is used to enhance the core competence and performance of firms. Based on the valid survey of 210 companies from the center, south and north China, theoretical hypothesis are tested by structural equation model. The results are: (1) entrepreneurial orientation can obviously promote organizational learning; (2) organizational learning can enhance the core competence of the firm; (3) core competence can promote the performance of the firm. Organizational learning does not have a direct effect on organizational performance, while it can do so by influencing core competence first. Therefore, organizational learning must aim at core competence. Entrepreneurial orientation has different effects on core competence between industries, and so does it on organizational performances between firms in different stages. Companies in their early stages may enhance the performance through entrepreneurial orientation, while turn to organizational learning in their matual stages to do so.