Linking knowledge management and innovation: a structural equation modeling approach
Knowledge Management (KM) is gaining attention and acceptance by organizations in search for competitive advantage. KM facilitates opportunistic application of fragmented knowledge through system integration. Being a new discipline, KM has been associated with innovation, competitiveness, and busine...
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| Summary: | Knowledge Management (KM) is gaining attention
and acceptance by organizations in search for
competitive advantage. KM facilitates
opportunistic application of fragmented knowledge
through system integration. Being a new discipline,
KM has been associated with innovation,
competitiveness, and business performance.
General interest pertaining to KM and its link to
innovation exists, however, there is little reported
research that supports for such empirical links
especially in Malaysian context. Furthermore,
contemporary KM studies are based upon
American and European models, frameworks, and
instruments. There is a need for local research to
address the KM practices and effects based on
local settings. Using data from 149 large
manufacturers, a KM enabling practices survey,
which comprises of 5 key domains, is compared
with four demographic firm elements. T-test, Oneway
ANOVA, LSD, and multiple regression
analysis are applied to identify the level of KM
practices and study the significant differences in
terms of demographics among these large
manufacturers. It is discovered that KM practices
are at medium level among large firms being
surveyed. It is found that there are significant
differences in KM practices among firms with high
annual sales. Measurement model analysis is
engaged to confirm significant relationships
between variables and their respective KM factors.
Subsequently, structural model analysis is applied
to test theory of structural relationship between
KM enabling practices and innovation activities.
Finally, a KM-Innovation model is proposed based
on good fit indices of structural equation modeling. |
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