Research On The Learning Ability And Competitive Advantage Of Modularity Organization

Under the background of globalization and new economy, enterprises' competitive advantage mainly comes from learning, especially the transferring of knowledge. It has become a key factor of innovation and competitive power establishing. As to the modularity organization, an intermediate form of network organization structure, the competitive advantage greatly depends on its network, as a result of obtaining complementary resources and absorbing and transferring knowledge by using social capital, which can establish its own competitive advantage. Furthermore, this can bring the integration in the whole network.In accordance with the vein of corporate learning, networks, social capital, competitive advantage, we do research on impact the learning ability has on the competitive advantage by qualitative and quantitative analysis. In modularity organization, there are two dimensions:knowledge absorbing and social capital using ability, which has effect on the competitive advantage. Therefore, company may construct its network advantage from these two aspects in its practice.Knowledge and knowledge innovation have been an important factor of establishing and keeping core competitive power. Innovation is the soul of corporation, which stems from the study of organization in a large part and study of knowledge absorbing that then can become inner knowledge, the motivating power of innovation. Therefore, it is important for corporation to have knowledge learning ability, as this can have a vital impact on competitive power. Meanwhile, following the knowledge economic era, modularity has been used in many fields, as a new operation and organization evolving means. As to Chinese enterprises, whoever wants to one's own field should strengthen the innovating ability, which needs the firm to acquire the new technology and experience, in a word, that is the study and absorbing of knowledge.The learning ability, in modularity network, can be mainly the absorbing of implicic knowledge that cannot be gotten easily. How to enhance the competitive advantage by using social capital from the inspective of knowledge study and how to establish the core competitive power in modular era, has brought up many effect to companies in inspective field.Trough the study of this paper, we can come to the conclusion learning ability indeed have effect on the competitive advantage in some sense, thus we can enhance it from knowledge absorbing and social capital using two aspects and integrate other resources of the whole network, as a result, bringing 1+1>2 effect.