...Jun Yin Purpose This study aims to qualitatively investigate when and how individuals' paradox mindset influences their individual unlearning. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted Charmaz's constructivist grounded theory approach based on constructivist ontology and interpretive...

... and examines it using survey data from 233 firms in China. Findings Unlearning is the enabler to strategic flexibility. Specifically, individual unlearning and organizational unlearning both have positive effects on strategic flexibility. Organizational unlearning exerts a partly mediating effect...