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Literature has stated contradictory arguments about the importance of tangible and intangible resources. Meanwhile knowledge literature insists on the importance of tacit knowledge, more traditional innovation literature and many practitioners have preferred to be focused in the importance of specific and tangible resources in organizational learning to generate innovative processes. The second perspective particularly highlights the abundance of technological resources because growing importance of information technology. This study examines the relevance of technology slack and tacit knowledge in the capability of organizational learning through an empirical investigation of 54 doctors and 62 nurses belonging to 44 Hospitalin- the-Home Units (HHU). Our results show a positive relationship between technological slack and tacit knowledge and between tacit knowledge and organizational learning; while the direct path between technological slack and organizational learning was not found to be significant [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A possible explanation for the numerous failures in the implementation and use of work life balance (WLB) practices may relate to the fact that the majority of companies have only introduced them without exploring the market. This paper analyses the relationships between relational learning and WLB culture and tries to identify whether WLB culture impacts on the business performance through an empirical study of 229 SMEs in the Spanish metal industry. Our findings show that in order to support a positive attitude toward WLB, managers need to provide and support a relearning process. These findings provide interesting insights into the drivers of organisational performance for SMEs using a WLB-supporting culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the role of congenital knowledge processes as a driver of an organization's work life balance culture, and as a subsequent source of its competitive advantage. A possible explanation for the numerous failures in the implementation and use of work life balance (WLB) practices may relate to the fact that the majority of companies have introduced them without exploring the nature and extent of their founders or owners prior knowledge of WLB and WLB practices. Congenital learning explains the phenomenon of how knowledge from founder-progeny relationships moves through an organization. This paper analyses the founderprogeny knowledge transfer, the founder-progeny knowledge transformation and the presence of an open organizational context, and the impact of this congenital learning on the WLB culture and further it tries to identify whether WLB culture impacts on the business performance through an empirical study of 229 SMEs in the Spanish metal industry. Our findings show that in order to create positive attitudes toward WLB, managers need to create and support a congenital learning framework. These findings provide interesting insights into the drivers of organisational performance for SMEs developing and supporting a WLB-supporting culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]