Mahdi Joneidi Jafari - Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Systems, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran,
Mohammad Aghdasi - Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Systems, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran,

This paper analyzes how top management support of technology influences the generation of technological skills, technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning. The research alsoexamines the effects of technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning on organizational innovation and reflects how all of these variables impact organizational performance. The results of our empirical analysis, based on a sample of 828 employees of Iran’s banking industry, suggest that: (1) top management support positively influences the generation of technological skills,technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning; (2) technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning positively affect organizational performance, directly and indirectly through organizational innovation.

Top management support (TMS), Technological skill, Technological distinctive competencies (TDC), Knowledge Absorptive capacity, corporate entrepreneurship, Organizational performance