Exploring the relation between organizational learning and knowledge management for improving performance

Abstract

In the uncertainty environment with rapid changes in the knowledge economy, organizations should try more than before for survival and remain competitive. Learning faster than the competitors is one of the best ways to remain in the condition for organizations. Current knowledge, needed knowledge and activities that enable firms to do or not, determines organizational success and failure. Knowledge is able to integrate important work in different fields such as accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, philosophy, marketing, sociology and strategy. So, nowadays (enormous of scholars and managers have tendency) to establish organizational learning and knowledge management. In the article, knowledge management and organizational learning is explained with a wide variety of definitions; afterward, the relation between these concepts and among them and performance is explained. At the end, by using literature of knowledge management a comprehensive model about knowledge management is proposed; furthermore the relation between knowledge management and performance is presented in the model. Then by utilizing the correlation between organizational learning and knowledge management the model is developed. So, final model illustrates the relation among organizational learning, knowledge management and performance.