Organizational Learning in Profit and Non-Profit Organizations: The Perspective of Innovative Culture Development

The focus of this paper is on learning in an organization as an important characteristic of innovative culture and its development. The paper addresses the following questions: what features of organizational learning prevail in profit and non-profit organizations; how these features provide or do not provide preconditions in these types of organizations? The attempts to answer this question are reflected in four parts of this paper: the first and the second parts reveal the concept of innovative culture and its characteristics, the essence of organizational learning, its types and relationship with a learning organization; the third part presents the research methodology. The paper is based on the empirical study of 30 profit and non-profit organizations. The research was carried out drawing on a quantitative approach. The method of written survey was employed to evaluate the features of organizational learning. The fourth part of the paper presents the empirical research results that are discussed to reveal the advantages and differences of organizational learning in profit and non-profit organizations. The paper seeks to bridge the gap in innovatics, which emerges as a result of a narrow approach to learning and innovations regardless of sectorial specificity.