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The impact of organizational learning on Polish and Finnish SME’s market performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. A comparative study

Tomasz Sikora
Tomasz Sikora
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Ewa Baranowska-Prokop
Ewa Baranowska-Prokop
   | 25. Juni 2024
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Article Category: Empirical Paper
Online veröffentlicht: 25. Juni 2024
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Eingereicht: 06. Nov. 2023
Akzeptiert: 12. Apr. 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2024-0018
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Propensity to OL (measured by the commitment to learning scale) according to the country of SMEs and the level of export involvement. Source: own elaboration based on indicator data. OL, organizational learning; SMEs, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Propensity to OL (measured by the commitment to learning scale) according to the country of SMEs and the level of export involvement. Source: own elaboration based on indicator data. OL, organizational learning; SMEs, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Descriptive statistics for the measure of OL (scale of commitment to learning) – Finnish SME sample)

Descriptive statisticsa
N Mean Std. deviation Skewness Kurtosis
Statistic Statistiic Statistic Statistic Std. error Statistic Std. error
Commitment to learning 81 16.95 1.809 −0.470 0.267 0.416 0.529
Valid N (listwise) 81

Analysis of variance for relationship between propensity to OL and firms’ characteristics

Tests of between-subjects effects
Dependent variable: propensity to OL
Source Type III sum of squares df Mean square F Sig.
Corrected model 239.596a 7 34.228 8.403 0.000
Intercept 58,224.038 1 58,224.038 14,294.432 0.000
Country 96.448 1 96.448 23.679 0.000
Small vs. m-sized 0.775 1 0.775 0.190 0.663
Exp vs. non-exp 27.287 1 27.287 6.699 0.010
Country × small vs. m-sized 2.622 1 2.622 0.644 0.423
Country × exp vs. non-exp 45.882 1 45.882 11.264 0.001
Small vs. m-sized × exp vs. non-exp 0.291 1 0.291 0.071 0.789
Country × small vs. m-sized × exp vs. non-exp 6.113 1 6.113 1.501 0.222
Error 1,189.374 292 4.073
Total 78,325.000 300
Corrected total 1,428.970 299

Descriptive statistics for declarations about profits or losses and sales evolution for the Finnish SME sample

Descriptive statisticsa
N Mean Std. deviation Skewness Kurtosis
Statistic Statistic Statistic Statistic Std. error Statistic Std. error
Financial results in 2020 (estimated) 81 3.56 0.791 −1.043 0.267 1.578 0.529
Sales dynamics in 2020(estimated) compared to 2019 81 3.17 0.959 0.428 0.267 −0.721 0.529
Valid N (listwise) 81

Descriptive statistics for declarations about profits or losses and sales evolution for the Polish SME sample

Descriptive statisticsa
N Mean Std. deviation Skewness Kurtosis
Statistic Statistic Statistic Statistic Std. error Statistic Std. error
Financial results in 2020 (estimated) 219 3.36 0.945 −1.042 0.164 0.685 0.327
Sales dynamics in 2020(estimated) compared to 2019 219 2.99 0.995 0.525 0.164 −0.602 0.327
Valid N (listwise) 219

Correlations between measures of market performance and propensity to OL for the Finnish sample

Correlation
Propensity to OL
Financial results in 2020 (estimated) Pearson correlation 0.002
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.986
N 81
Financial results in 2020 (estimated) – eight outliers removed Pearson correlation −0.237*
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.043
N 73
Sales dynamics in 2020 (estimated) compared to 2019 Pearson correlation −0.002
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.984
N 81
Sales dynamics 2018–2020 – eleven outliers removed Pearson correlation 0.031
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.796
N 70

Correlations between measures of market performance and propensity to OL for the Polish sample

Correlation
Propensity to OL
Financial results in 2020 (estimated) Pearson correlation 0.120
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.077
N 219
Financial results in 2020 (estimated) – six outliers removed Pearson correlation 0.181**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.008
N 213
Sales dynamics in 2020 (estimated) compared to 2019 Pearson correlation 0.044
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.514
N 219
Sales dynamics in 2020 (estimated) compared to 2019 – ten outliers removed Pearson correlation 0.162*
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.019
N 209

Descriptive statistics for the measure of OL (scale of commitment to learning) – Polish SME sample

Descriptive statisticsa
N Mean Std. deviation Skewness Kurtosis
Statistic Statistic Statistic Statistic Std. error Statistic Std. error
Commitment to learning 219 15.66 2.214 −0.285 0.164 −0.454 0.327
Valid N (listwise) 219

Descriptive statistics related to propensity to OL of Polish and Finnish SMEs

Descriptive
Propensity to OL (measured on the scale of commitment to l¢earning)
N Mean Std. deviation Std. error Minimum Maximum
Finland 81 16.95 1.809 0.201 12 21
Poland 219 15.66 2.214 0.150 9 21
Total 300 16.01 2.186 0.126 9 21
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