The creation and the use of knowledge have increasingly been regarded as important issues for management. A wide range of studies have investigated this topic during the past decade. Notwithstanding these contributions, very little systematic attention has been paid to the linkages between knowledge capabilities and strategy implementation. Drawing from knowledge capabilities theory and strategy implementation literature, two aspects of knowledge capabilities in an organization and their effect on strategy implementation effectiveness are investigated: knowledge process capabilities (KPC) and knowledge infrastructure capabilities (KIC). This study hypothesized that KPC affects strategy implementation effectiveness (SIE) and that KPC affects KIC. The third hypothesis proposed the effect of KIC on SIE by examining the mediating role played by KIC in linking KPC and SIE. 1,321 middle-managers were sent questionnaires via electronic mail and 162 were returned. The findings indicated the presence of a mediation effect of KIC on the relationship between KPC and SIE. This study provides guidelines for middle-managers to better understand how to develop activities of KPC and KIC for SIE. It is hoped that the results of this study will enhance our understanding of the strategic importance of knowledge in an organization, especially in the area of strategy implementation.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of knowledge management practices onorganizational effectiveness by considering the moderating role of organizational culture.Questionnaire survey method was used to collect the data from different employees in healthsector. Sample of 450 questionnaires were distributed by applying simple random samplingtechnique with a response rate of 86%. Results of study shows that Knowledge Managementpractices has strong positive and significant relationshi...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review and present that separate capabilities of knowledge management (KM) are identified and classified as sequential capability. These KM capabilities are utilized to affect organizational performance with a KM-cyclic view. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is a literature review research, through which KM capability and performance are identified, synthesized, from related books, literature and other research studies. Using key-word search in ele...
Collaborating is a strategy frequently adopted by senior managers in organisations to achieve cost savings or access new markets. Collaboration provides a social, interactive context for knowledge creation and transfer. Knowledge is valuable and emphasised by organisational strategists to leverage diverse intellectual capabilities and human capital, which may contribute to sustainable competitive advantage. To maximise the opportunities to learn and innovate arising from a collaborative venture,...
This article examines organizational learning effect on company flexibility, competitive strategy and operation among Esfahan Foolad Mobarakeh Company personnel. The study method is descriptive and correlative. The population includes all personnel of Esfahan Foolad Mobarakeh Company and related data were analyzed by AMOS software to examine the cause and effect relations used by the study. The findings confirmed the relations and indicate organizational learning is an important device in modern...
The purpose of the research is to develop a model of knowledge management (KM) practices and organizational performance (OP), to validate the relationship of KM practices and OP in the model, and 3) to suggest for the improvement of KM practices and OP. This research investigates the relationship of KM practices, innovation and OP. Both quantitative research and qualitative research are conducted to test the relationship of the variables in the proposed model and conceptual framework. In quantit...
Purpose – In a progressively more knowledge‐dependent economy, businesses need to learn to harness the knowledge that resides within their organizations. However, organizations often find it challenging to manage this most important asset that people possess. Researchers have asserted that it is mostly organizational factors that pose a challenge to the management of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of knowledge infrastructure capability in knowledge management (KM) pr...
article i nfo An organization's ability to learn is a key strategic capability to compete in modern markets. This research seeks to achieve an in-depth understanding of learning's contribution to a firm's competitiveness by analyz- ing how organizational learning (OL), understood as a dynamic capability, shapes firms' strategic flexibility and competitive strategy implementation to ultimately improve customer, financial, and market-related per- formance. This article proposes that OL acts as a f...
#2Gerard Fillion(U de M: Université de Moncton)H-Index: 8
Last. Michel Plaisent(UQAM: Université du Québec à Montréal)H-Index: 9
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La theorie des ressources presente une approche strategique par laquelle une organisation a recours a ses ressources internes en vue d’obtenir un avantage concurrentiel durable. En effet, depuis une vingtaine d’annees, les gestionnaires considerent que certaines ressources et certaines capacites specifiques des entreprises sont cruciales pour expliquer la performance en affaires. Un des defis a relever, pour ces gestionnaires, est d’identifier, de developper, de proteger et de deployer ces resso...