The relationship between learning organization system on innovation performance: testing moderated mediation role of organizational cultural identification

The organizational growth and sustainability are closely related to how well the organizational system is functioning. In particular, the organizational innovation and competitiveness are related to the creativity and innovation through knowledge sharing among organizational members in a competitive situation. In relation to such background, this study focused on the learning organization system as a key variable that drives to knowledge sharing among organizational members. As a product of the knowledge economy era, the learning organization system plays a crucial role in an organization's development process. The establishment of a learning organization system helps create a shared learning platform, which reduces the cost of acquiring knowledge for employees, promotes joint learning among employees, and effectively facilitates the rapid dissemination of knowledge within the organization. This practice effectively stimulates employees' innovation ability and enhances their innovation performance, which, in turn, provides important support for the sustainable development of organizations. Therefore, this study argues that organizational learning systems are closely related to employees' innovation performance. In this context, this study investigates whether learning organizational systems can improve employees' innovation performance and the mediating role of employees' knowledge sharing behaviors in promoting innovation performance. Most previous studies focused only on the mediating or moderating roles of the model. This study expands the research field by examining the moderating role of organizational cultural identification. We also verified its moderating role. Overall, this study aims to determine improvements in the innovation performance of employees under a learning organization system. Based on this, suggestions are proposed to strengthen and optimize the learning organization system and provide a theoretical basis for related research. This study collected survey data from 300 Chinese SME employees for empirical analysis. The results show that the learning organization system has a positive effect on employee innovation performance. Knowledge sharing can also positively influence innovation performance. In addition, the interaction between organizational cultural identification and the learning organizational system improves employees' knowledge sharing. Overall, we contributed to the field of learning organization system research and fill the theoretical and practical gaps in existing related research.