How the Intention to Participate Ensures the Success of Effective Organizational Learning from Failure

Not a few organizations are assumed to be poor at organizational learning (OL) from failure (OLF), which entails (1) employees’ willingness to participate in initiatives focused on OLF and (2) the formation of organizational routines (ORs). We examined how the success of OLF relates to (1) and (2) through a quantitative analysis based on two years’ worth of survey data. Following our investigation, we cannot claim for certain that activities focused on OLF were successful due to (1). However, we found that (1) positively impacted the formation of ORs, which in turn can ensure the success of OLF. As a lot of organizations assumed to be poor at learning from failure, this study is significant because it offers practical suggestions and shows how they can do it well.