Abstract

The character of organizational innovation is considered significant for developing and improving the related products, procedures and marketplaces, for adding value as well as effectiveness over administrations. The innovation procedure is necessary regarding the activity of an association as the capability for innovation is important for attaining and sustaining competitive advantage. The absence of empirical investigations about the consequence of knowledge management on organizational innovation by organizational learning particularly over the developing countries exists in the related literature. The key objective of the current investigation is to evaluate the consequence of knowledge management on innovation directly and over organizational learning in Iranian automotive industry namely Iran Khodro Company. A total of 272 managers were chosen from systems and methods as the participants of the current study. The data were analysed using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Results of the study revealed that there is an influence of knowledge management on organizational innovation in Iranian automotive industry. Results of the investigation showed that organizational learning has an important character as a mediator on the association between knowledge management and organizational innovation.

Highlights

  • Due to the fast improving technology and slowly globalizing marketplace, knowledge management (KM) is longer measured a suitable plan in this extremely competitive commercial contexts

  • partial least squares (PLS) algorithm is established on a series of ordinary least squares regressions (OLS) whereby PLS-Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) as a robust technique can handle complex models and non-normally distributed data (Klarner et al, 2013)

  • Hypothesis statement organizational learning (OL) mediates the relationship between KM on organizational innovation (OI)

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Introduction

Due to the fast improving technology and slowly globalizing marketplace, knowledge management (KM) is longer measured a suitable plan in this extremely competitive commercial contexts. KM are a considered as important constituent of commercial achievement, and actual policies for nonstop improving innovation and activity in business. Several academics and practitioners believed that KM should ease making novel knowledge for making an organization more innovative and competitive (Burton-Jones, 2001; Joshi et al, 2010; Kearns & Sabherwal, 2007) acquiring knowledge positively in management procedures influences OI. The business goals have initiated to focus on varying capitals to obtain new knowledge to maintain sustained competitive advantages. They supposed that like a system, KM is an important input, and OL is the main procedure, after that OI is a vital output

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