Journal of Management Research and Review (JMRR)

HR Analytics as an Organizational Learning Capability: Dynamic Capabilities, Absorptive Capacity, And Double-Loop Learning

Patrick, BELINGA BESSALA Jacob

22 July 2026 · Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 530-541

DOI: 10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E7/2026-08

Abstract

Objective: This article reconceptualises HR analytics from a decision-support tool to an organisational learning capability by integrating three theoretical traditions that have not been jointly mobilised in the HR analytics literature: dynamic capabilities theory, absorptive capacity, and organisational learning theory. Design/methodology: A theoretical integrative review (Torraco, 2005) synthesizes three bodies of literature through a structured analytical protocol. Published empirical findings from prior studies are reinterpreted under the integrated theoretical lens as secondary empirical anchoring. Findings: HR analytics maturity activates dynamic HR capabilities (sensing, seizing, reconfiguring) that produce organisational learning only when absorptive capacity mediates the conversion of analytical outputs into actionable knowledge. Learning depth, from single-loop correction to double-loop reconfiguration, determines the strategic quality of human capital decisions. Eight propositions and four contextual moderators are formalised. Implications: This article offers a novel application, among the first in the HR analytics domain, of the dynamic capabilities-absorptive capacity-organizational learning nexus, shifting the field’s guiding question from “What can HR analytics do?” to “How does an organisation learn through HR analytics?”

Keywords: HR analytics, dynamic capabilities, absorptive capacity, organisational learning, double-loop learning, evidence-based HRM

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Patrick, & BELINGA BESSALA Jacob (2026). HR Analytics as an Organizational Learning Capability: Dynamic Capabilities, Absorptive Capacity, And Double-Loop Learning. Journal of Management Research and Review, 2(7), 530-541. https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E7/2026-08

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  title   = {HR Analytics as an Organizational Learning Capability: Dynamic Capabilities, Absorptive Capacity, And Double-Loop Learning},
  author  = {Patrick and BELINGA BESSALA Jacob},
  journal = {Journal of Management Research and Review},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {2},
  number  = {7},
  pages   = {530-541},
  doi     = {10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E7/2026-08},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E7/2026-08}
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