The Impact of Intertwined Relationships between Organizational Capabilities on Business Performance

The aim of this study was to investigate the intertwined relationship between some dynamic capabilities such as organizational agility, organizational creativity and organizational learning. It also aimed to verify the relationship between these dynamic capabilities and business performance among companies in an emerging context such as Tunisia. Our quantitative approach enabled us to conduct a study on a sample of 180 companies operating in the industrial sector in order to verify the bi-directional and positive relationships between organizational agility, organizational creativity and organizational learning and to measure their contributions to business performance. These positive relationships suggest that, in order to optimize its performance, a company must develop its creative, agile, and learning capabilities. Organizational agility has positive impacts on creativity and learning, making them more agile and thus developing agile creativity and agile learning. When creativity and learning are agile, they are capable of creating more organizational agility. Finally, the results show that business performance is positively affected by dynamic capabilities such as organizational agility, organizational creativity, and organizational learning.