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The Relationship of Knowledge Management and Organizational Performance in Science and Technology Parks of Iran

Independent Journal of Management & Production

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Title The Relationship of Knowledge Management and Organizational Performance in Science and Technology Parks of Iran
 
Creator Haghighi, Mohammad Ali
Bagheri, Rouhollah
kalat, Parisa Sabbagh
 
Subject —
knowledge management; knowledge management infrastructure capabilities; knowledge management process capabilities; creative organizational learning; organizational performance
 
Description Abstract Any effective and sustainable changes in an organization refers to three areas related with each other and play the best way in the humans, structure and technology fields. The Knowledge management by emphasizing the three areas with the axis of man and preparing him as a knowledge worker tries to achieve organizational goals. Purpose: The current study aims to investigate the existing relationship between knowledge management infrastructures, knowledge management process capabilities, creative organizational learning, and organizational performance. Originality/value: Previous researches did not appraise the effect of knowledge management and its capabilities on organizational performance, and the specific influence of creative organizational learning was disregarded. The present study demonstrates the mechanism of knowledge management effect on organizational performance and describes the comprehensive dimensions of knowledge management performance. Methodology: Statistical population includes executives of Knowledge based companies in Science and Technology Parks of Iran. The 336 questionnaire was distributed to the census, 248questionnaireswerecompletedcorrectly. The research data were analyzed by PLS software. The unit of analysis is a company that has adopted a KMS. Target population of the research consisted of 700 Top Managers of Knowledge based companies in Science and Technology Parks of Iran (N=700). Random sampling method applied in this study and 248Top Managers were considered as the statistical sample based on "Morgan Table". One standard 5-point Likert questionnaire adopted and distributed between Top managers in the park. 252 questionnaires were returned among which 248 ones were statistically investigated. The structural relations among variables were tested using the partial least squares (PLS) method. Findings: This study shows that the KM processes can mediate between creative organizational learning and factors in the KM infrastructure. The results of the study demonstrate that knowledge management process capabilities has the most crucial role in creative organizational learning. The results indicate that there is a significant influence of the infrastructure capabilities (Collaboration, Trust, Learning Culture, Decentralization, Top Management, Promotion, IT support) on the process capabilities, also the impacts of knowledge management process capabilities on creative organizational learning and the impacts of creative organizational learning on organizational performance was confirmed.
 
Publisher Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
 
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Date 2015-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/282
10.14807/ijmp.v6i2.282
 
Source Independent Journal of Management & Production; Vol 6, No 2 (2015): Independent Journal of Management & Production; 422-448
2236-269X
 
Language eng
 
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