Abstract
This current study is among the very few investigations, which seeks the relationship between knowledge management and sustainable organizational innovation in garment business firms. This investigation focused on examining how organizational learning mediates the relationship between knowledge management and sustainable organizational innovation. This research establishes that knowledge management and organizational innovation procedures are integral parts of the progress and survival of the organizations. The received data of this population reports on the garment firms, operating their businesses in Lahore and Gujranwala. The study applied a stratified random sampling method for data collection and employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the hypothesized relationships. The results specify that knowledge management shows a significant positive association with organizational learning, which in turn reveals a positive linkage to sustainable organizational innovation in SMEs of the garment industry. The study results also specify that organizational learning mediates the relationship between knowledge management and sustainable organizational innovation. This research survey identifies the significance of knowledge management and organizational learning in executing the process of organizational innovation, and it helps business managers to understand organizational learning as a mediator, which in turn indicates the benefits of knowledge management in achieving sustainable organizational innovation. This review provides an empirical indication of original data to investigate the linkage between knowledge management, sustainable innovation process, and organizational learning culture in the Pakistani garment sector. The generalizability of the study fallouts is restricted to the garment industry, and it offers valuable insights for imminent researchers.
Highlights
Since the intensification of knowledge management, the values in the process of organizational innovation is taking place increasingly in the business industry [1]
In today’s competitive and turbulent market, knowledge management sharing plays an indispensable role in creating new knowledge in the process of sustainable innovation in organizations
Hypothesis H4 stated, “Organizational learning mediates the relationship between knowledge management and organizational innovation in garments sector SMEs of Lahore and Gujranwala Pakistan.”
Summary
Since the intensification of knowledge management, the values in the process of organizational innovation is taking place increasingly in the business industry [1]. In views of Park, Ribière [11], “Today’s world economy is recognized as enormous competitiveness in businesses, establishing learning systems, creating products and services mergers and adopting and managing rapidly changing technologies. Such kind of competitive and energetic business environment ask for managing organizational knowledge even more competitively.”. Wiig [12] clarified knowledge management by defining it as a range of clearly described procedures, methods, and techniques employed to find out valuable information in different administrative procedures He determined knowledge management's purpose was primarily to empower business in alternative perspectives, first to secure its prospects and achievements, after that, concentrate on building a firm or industry to sensibly, considering its knowledge assets. Organizational learning was taken as a mediating variable by addressing the literature gap means the missing statistical link between the studied variables and the literature gap in terms of the garments industry, SMEs, and developing countries like Pakistan
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