The Relationship Between Organizational Innovations, Internal Sources of Knowledge and Organizational Performance

Abstract

Management research considers knowledge as one of the first sources of competitiveness of the company. This observation is at the origin of development in recent years, the Knowledge-Based View (Grant, 1996), resulting from the resource-based perspective approach. This research examines the importance of internal sources of knowledge and its relationship with organizational innovation and organizational performance. We did this research on a sample of 200 Tunisian companies operating in different sectors. Our study was built mainly on the basis of quantitative method. The data collection method is the questionnaire as part of a hypothetical-deductive approach and the mode of administration is self-administered survey and e-mail survey. The empirical verification of the assumptions of this research has led us to confirm the relationship between internal and external sources of knowledge with organizational innovation and organizational performance and to infirm the relationship between organizational innovation and organizational performance.