Role Of Knowledge Management Practices Research Articles

Role of Knowledge Management Practices in Enhancing Innovation and Competitiveness in the Ethiopian Leather Industry

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the role of knowledge management practices in enhancing innovation and competitiveness in the Ethiopian leather industry.
 Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
 Findings: The role of knowledge management practices in enhancing innovation and competitiveness in the Ethiopian leather industry is significant. Through effective knowledge management strategies, such as knowledge sharing, transfer, and utilization, firms can capitalize on their intellectual capital to foster innovation and improve competitiveness. By leveraging existing knowledge assets and creating a culture of continuous learning and innovation, Ethiopian leather companies can position themselves for sustained growth and success in both domestic and international markets.
 Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Resource-based view (RBV) theory, dynamic capabilities theory & social capital theory may be used to anchor future studies on the role of knowledge management practices in enhancing innovation and competitiveness in the Ethiopian leather industry. Organizations within the Ethiopian leather industry should invest in capacity-building programs to enhance employees' knowledge management capabilities. Government policies should be formulated to support knowledge management initiatives and innovation in the Ethiopian leather industry.

Knowledge management practices and family businesses continuity in Edo State

This study investigated the role of knowledge management practices in mitigating family businesses failures. The specific objectives of the study are to investigate the effect of knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge storage on the continuity of family businesses. This research adopts survey method as its research design. The population of study are the entire family businesses in Edo state. However, the accessible population are 750 of family businesses established within the periods of 1980-2020 in Edo Central and Edo North senatorial districts. Seven hundred and fifty copies of questionnaire were administered to respondents from a sample size of 150 firms mathematically determined. With the aid of STATA software, the formulated hypotheses were validated using Pearson Correlation coefficient, the Ordinary Least Square Regression method at 5% level of significance. The study found that knowledge creation and knowledge sharing exhibit positive significant relationships with family businesses’ continuity while knowledge storage report a positive and insignificant relationship with the continuity of family businesses. This paper recommend among others that founders/owners should hire high caliber employees and embrace mentoring principles in its staff development.

The Role of Knowledge Management Practices in Adapting to Disruptive Technologies Among Information Organisations: The Case of Some Selected Media Institutions

The Role of Knowledge Management Practices in Adapting to Disruptive Technologies Among Information Organisations: The Case of Some Selected Media Institutions

Examining employee performance through knowledge management practices, organisational commitment and capacity building in the Malaysian hotel industry

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the role of knowledge management practices, organisational commitment and capacity building on employee performance in the hotel industry. This study also investigated the mediating role of organisational commitment and capacity building between knowledge management practices and employee performance. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach and questionnaire survey were used to collect data from hotel employees from Malaysia. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to collect data from 291 participants, and partial least squares structural equation modelling was used to analyse the hypotheses. Findings The results of this study confirm that knowledge management practices positively and significantly affect knowledge-employee performance. Employees achieve this performance through the mediating influence of organisational commitment and capacity building culture. Practical implications This study offers several implications for Malaysian practitioners and policymakers regarding learning and knowledge management practices in the hospitality industry. The results suggest that organisations can manage knowledge assets and key processes of the organisational environment to create and use knowledge to improve sustainable employee performance through knowledge management practices. Originality/value This study sheds light on the knowledge management literature by examining the effect of knowledge management practices on organisational commitment, particularly in the hospitality industry in Malaysia.

The impact of administrative management and information technology on e-government success: The mediating role of knowledge management practices

This study examines the impact of administrative management and information technology on e-government success with the mediation role of knowledge management practices. For this purpose, data was gathered from 163 public sector participants in the Al-Jouf region of Saudi Arabia. This study uses partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to test and validate the research model and proposed hypotheses. The findings show that information technology and administrative management significantly increase e-government success and knowledge management practices. Moreover, the findings revealed that knowledge management practices play a vital mediating role between information technology and administrative management to make e-government success more successful and to reduce risk. Furthermore, this study strengthens the theoretical and practical implications of e-government by developing a link with socio-technical systems theory as well as with Fayol’s administrative management theory. In the end, the study recommends that policymakers and managers take serious steps to attain advantages in the application of technologies in e-government to fulfill the renewable and changing needs of beneficiaries.

The role of knowledge management practices in the absorptive capacity: a research of soybean farms

ABSTRACT Empirical evidence and systematic reviews suggest the need for studying how organisational antecedents or mechanisms affect absorptive capacity (ACAP). This study intends to fill this theoretical gap by trying to understand the role of technology-oriented knowledge management practices (KMPs) that serve as managerial antecedents in an organisation’s ACAP. To achieve this goal, qualitative research was conducted among soybean farmers in the state of Goiás (Brazil). The main result was that KMPs were identified as the link between potential and realised ACAP insofar as they have institutionalised the process of creating an organisational memory. The main contribution of this paper was to show that practices of searching, launching, storing, and systematically reviewing information are KMPs related to the organisation’s ACAP. It complements previous papers that associate these constructs. Future research may further explore this relationship in quantitative terms within other contexts.

Exploring the mediating role of knowledge management practices to corporate sustainability

This study aims to elaborate and recognize a model in which knowledge management practices affect corporate sustainability via corporate structure, corporate culture, corporate leadership style, and a unique variable social capital, used for the first time. Knowledge management is now used as a mediating variable for corporate sustainability. Creating long-term sustainable strategies emphasizes the need for a distinctive model of knowledge management practices in a rapidly changing business environment. Therefore, this paper delivers insights on how an organization can sustain its performance by addressing new dimensions due to the changing socio-economic environments and the pursuit of incessant improvement of competition. The authors used a quantitative research approach. Data is collected through a well-designed questionnaire from 130 respondents from Dhaka's textile sector, a significant sector of Bangladesh's economy and the world's second-largest ready-made garment (RMG) manufacturer and exporter. The result revealed that corporate sustainability is significantly related to corporate structure, culture, social capital, and corporate leadership styles. The mediated role of knowledge management in the link between organizational culture and sustainable performance is also crucial, and the relationship between leadership style and sustainable performance is also vital. A new variable known as social capital is also identified. Giving value and novelty to the academic literature also confirmed knowledge management and corporate sustainability theories that governments and regulators should follow.

Role of Knowledge Management Practices in Indian Financial Sector

Knowledge is inherent in ideas, talent, judgments, relationship, root causes, relationships, concepts and perspective. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of knowledge management practices and organizational commitment on the job satisfaction of individual employees. A theoretical model concerning the connections between six facets of Knowledge Management (knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation, knowledge application, knowledge codification and knowledge retention), two facets of Organizational Commitment (Keeping up organizational image and Responding to organizational greediness) and job satisfaction is proposed. Then data is collected through face to face questionnaire and also online web based questionnaires and sample is selected on convenience based from the banking sector organization of Coimbatore. The findings of the study show that the organization's commitment to one's work environment and the knowledge management process are closely linked to the job satisfaction of higher employees. Especially intra-organizational knowledge sharing knowledge application and knowledge creation also organization commitment (coping with attachment) seems to be a key factors promoting satisfaction with one’s job in most employee.

Role of Knowledge Management on the Sustainable Environment: Assessing the Moderating Effect of Innovative Culture.

Environmental sustainability has become the need of the hour and has been emphasized immensely because of the increased environmental awareness and resulting problems caused due to negligence. This study has intended to determine the role of knowledge management (KM) practices in achieving a sustainable environment with the mediating role of environmental awareness and green technological use. The study further examined the moderating role of green innovative culture between the relationship of KM practices and a sustainable environment. The data were acquired from 378 managerial level personnel of the construction industry in China through questionnaires. Smart-PLS 3.3.3 was used to determine the study's hypothesis through the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. The study found that KM practice has a significant relationship with a sustainable environment, environmental awareness, and green technological use. Also, environmental awareness has a significant effect on a sustainable environment. Moreover, it was found in the study that environmental awareness significantly mediated the relationship between KM practices and sustainable environment, but green technological use did not find any mediating effect on the relationship between KM practices and sustainable environment. Furthermore, green innovative culture considerably moderated the relationship between KM practices and a sustainable environment. Theoretically, this study contributes to the existing literature by incorporating and investigating the role of KM practices in a sustainable environment. Practically, this article presented some implications for the management concerning promoting KM practices and environmental awareness within the organization and developing a green innovative culture.

Measuring the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Performance of Textile-Based Small–Medium Enterprises: A Mediation–Moderation Model

This research aimed to examine the role of knowledge management practices in sustainable entrepreneurship performance. This study also investigated the relationships between six concepts: knowledge sharing behavior, innovative capacity, absorptive capacity, dynamic capability, opportunity recognition, and sustainable entrepreneurship. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection from 486 entrepreneurs randomly selected from textile-based SMEs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The findings show that knowledge management practices positively and significantly impact sustainable entrepreneurship performance and SMEs’ dynamic capabilities. Moreover, opportunity recognition strengthens the relationship between SMEs’ dynamic capabilities and sustainable entrepreneurship performance. This study offers valuable insights and directions for researchers and practitioners interested in the field of entrepreneurship.

The role of knowledge management practices on innovation performance in a public telecommunication company

The role of knowledge management practices on innovation performance in a public telecommunication company

Evaluation of knowledge management practices – a leather industry context

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of knowledge management (KM) in terms of organizational performance using structural equation modeling. To enhance organizational performance, KM is used as a powerful strategic tool. The factors such as management commitment, leadership and organizational culture are the KM enabler’s conditions, and the step processes of KM are knowledge capture, creation, organizing/storing and transfer, and through this, KM is analyzed on organizational performance in the context of leathers manufacturing company. This study constructs with questionnaire consist of 34 variables.Design/methodology/approachThere are about 101 samples that were collected through the questionnaire survey method in the leather companies in Ranipet. The data were collected from executives and associates in the leather companies. Data were analyzed using the SPSS tool and SMART PLS tool used for framing a research model and the hypothesized relationships were tested through partial least squares structural equation modeling technique.FindingsThe finding of this study is mandatory to implement a structured KM practice in the leather companies. Application of KM is quite an impact on organizational performance, which leads to profitability and productivity.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to empirically investigate the KM enablers, process and support for the role of KM practices at leather industry. Further, the positioning of KM practices as a strategic competitive tool can be considered as an influential factor to organizational performance.

The Role of Knowledge Management Practices in Healthcare Industry

In a competitive environment the service-based healthcare industry is trying to balance customer expectations and amount required for continuing novelty and technological progression. Though, the health care sector depends on knowledge, thus the facts-based remedy and medication is expected to be implemented in daily health care activities. The provision of healthcare mainly depends on cooperation, collaboration and support of numerous partners that need to exchange and share their knowledge in order to provide good quality of healthcare. This paper overview and importance of Knowledge management and hence provide its insights in healthcare industry.

Application of big data analytics and organizational performance: the mediating role of knowledge management practices

Drawing from tenets of the resource-based theory, we propose and test a model that examines the relationship between the application of big data analytics (ABDA) and organizational performance (OP) in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Further, this study examines the mediating role of knowledge management practices (KMP) in relation to the ABDA and OP. Data were collected from respondents working in SMEs through an adapted instrument. This research study adopts the Baron–Kenny approach to test the mediation. The results indicated that the ABDA had a positive and significant impact on OP. Also, KMP had partially mediated the relationship between ABDA and OP in SMEs. The dataset was solely comprised of SMEs from Pakistan administered Kashmir and may not reflect the insights from other regions. Hence limits the generalizability of the results. Findings highlight both strategic and practical implications related to decision making in organizations for top management, particularly in developing countries. This study attempts to contribute to the literature through novel findings and recommendations. These fallouts will help the top management during the key decision-making process and encourage practitioners who seek competitive advantage through enhanced organizational performance in SMEs.

Back to the future of Knowledge Management Systems off the beaten paths

PurposeThe evolution of Knowledge-Management (KM)-related literature has highlighted that Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) have undergone massive changes in collaborative environments. Information-Systems-enabled KM seems to be the necessary response to the recent challenges posed by globalisation and technology dynamics to both large companies (LCs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachThis paper provides a systematic review about KMSs to offer an analytical overview of their role in supporting innovative forms of knowledge translation occurring in collaborative relationships. A sample of 129 papers was selected and analysed according to three perspectives: unit of analysis (LCs, SMEs), phases of the KM process (adoption, translation) and topic area (KM Practices, KM Tools, KMSs).FindingsThe findings highlight five literature gaps: (1) the role of KM practices supporting knowledge translation; (2) the impact of the alignment among KM practices, firm's complexity, dimension and culture on KM process; (3) the effect of KM tools on knowledge translation; (4) the variety of KMSs exploited in both LCs and SMEs; and (5) the alignment between organisational structure and information systems in KM context. Accordingly, 13 research questions were formulated.Originality/valueThe proposed research questions define a formal research agenda that could steer further research efforts about the KMS topic for improving the body of knowledge in the KM field. Scientific literature is currently lacking a contribution assessing the role of KMSs in supporting innovative forms of knowledge translation that occur in collaborative relationships.

The Role of Knowledge Management Practices on Innovation Performance in Public Telecommunication Company

The aim of this research is to identify the role of knowledge management practice in enhancing the innovation capability of an organisation. The study was conducted in a national public telecommunication company using 100 participants in Jakarta. Multiple regressions were used to analyse whether knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, and knowledge application can contribute to the organisation's innovativeness. The results showed that partially, only knowledge sharing and application had significant and positive relation to innovation capability. While simultaneously, knowledge management practices in the company could impact the innovation capability. The insights from the study were that knowledge management practices should be systematically implemented in the organisation. The sharing and application of important knowledge throughout the organisation would help increase the innovative thinking of the employees, hence indirectly affect the innovation capability of the organisation.

Does knowledge management practice produce accounting employee productivity in the tourism business in Thailand?

ABSTRACTThis study examined the role of knowledge management practices in accounting employee productivity in the tourism industry in Thailand. A convenience sample of 191 accounting employees from Thailand’s tourism industry completed a questionnaire. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. The results of the study showed that knowledge management practice had a positive relationship with financial statement quality, financial statement users’ satisfaction, organizational image creation, and a true and fair view of accounting information in this field. The findings provide valuable information for accounting departments in tourism businesses throughout Thailand, which can be applied to the development of effective target-knowledge management strategies.

Knowledge management practices

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate KM practices that may be in place in the higher education institutions (HEIs) and whether the KM practices are made known to the employees for improving the teaching and learning environment provided at the Malaysian higher education institutions.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using a personal administrated method made available to private higher education institutions academic members in five states with 30 or more employees. A total of 1,100 survey questionnaires were handed out, out of which 273 were collected and were usable (24.8 per cent response rate). The sample was checked for response and non-response bias. Results were tested using SPSS application and questionnaire tools.FindingsIt was essential to establish the knowledge management (KM) capacity in key areas such as the ability to recognise experts within the institution, leadership’s innovation, knowledge sharing and knowledge acquiring work culture, and technology usage. KM tools and techniques would help the institutions to meet their competitive goals; therefore, it is vital for HEIs to create KM awareness among the employees.Research limitations/implicationsSimilar to most studies, it is anticipated that the participants’ awareness of KM practices at their HEIs is very high. The samples were collected to evaluate the general view of KM awareness and how participants perceived KM practices. The total samples received for this study were expected; however, they were sufficient to study the impact.Practical implicationsThis paper provides support for the importance of KM practices and employees awareness at HEIs to enhance innovation and performance teaching and learning environment.Originality/valueThis paper is one of the first papers to find empirical support for the role of KM practices at HEIs. Further, the positioning of KM practices as a competitive tool can be considered as an influential factor to competitive advantage.

The Impact of Knowledge Management Strategy on Service Innovation Performance in Private and Public Hospitals

The main objective of this research is to investigate the comparative effect of knowledge management strategy on the service innovation performance in public and private hospitals through the mediating role of knowledge management practices. Drawing in knowledge management theory, all the organizations require a suitable knowledge management strategy to perform successfully. Therefore, this research focuses on this under-researched subject. This research benefits from quantitative and hypothetical-deductive approach. The sample of the research includes 852 therapy sections of both public and private hospitals in Tabriz. The data was collected via research questionnaire. The data has been analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology. The results indicate a significant positive relationship between the knowledge management strategy and the knowledge management practices. Moreover, the mediating role of knowledge management practices was confirmed in the relationship between knowledge management strategy and service innovation performance in public and private hospitals.

The Impact of Knowledge-Oriented Leadership on Innovative Performance through Considering the Mediating Role of Knowledge Management Practices

Strategists consider knowledge as a basic asset source through passing from source-oriented to knowledge-oriented approach in organizations, and the value of knowledge is evaluated based on how that knowledge is used in organization process, in order to produce goods and services. The purpose of this the study is to evaluate the impacts of aspects of knowledge-oriented leadership on innovative performance through considering mediating role of knowledge management practices in head quarter’s domain of energy consultant engineering of Khorasan. The methodology of this research is descriptive study. Also, the purpose of the study is an applied research. The study population consisted of all employees in head quarter’s domain of energy consultant engineering of Khorasan that includes 200 people. According to Morgan table, the sample size is 130 people that the questioners were randomly distributed among them. The questioner was used for data collection, and LISREL software was used for data analysis. The results of the study proved the impacts of aspects of knowledge-oriented leadership on innovative performance through considering mediating role of knowledge management practices in headquarters’ domain of energy consultant. In this context, the present study hypothesis was confirmed.