The effect of knowledge management practices on firm performance
| Autor: | Fernando José Garrigós Simón, Daniel Palacios Marqués |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Value (ethics)
Knowledge management Conceptualization business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Subject (documents) Organizational performance Empirical research Originality Management of Technology and Innovation Scale (social sciences) Dimension (data warehouse) business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Knowledge Management. 10:143-156 |
| ISSN: | 1367-3270 |
| Popis: | PurposeThis research proposes to study the connection between knowledge management practices and firm performance.Design/methodology/approachTheoretical relations are tested through an empirical study carried out on 222 Spanish firms in the biotechnology and telecommunications industries.FindingsThis paper shows how the firms that adopt knowledge management practices obtain better results than their competitors.Research limitations/implicationsThe subject of principles has not been considered a dimension of knowledge management. New avenues of inquiry are opened considering this dimension.Practical implicationsIt determines practices that have a positive incidence on firm performance.Originality/valueThe conceptualization of knowledge management practices represents a theoretical innovation. This scale can be used in other knowledge‐intensive industries. The paper concludes that these practices have a positive incidence on firm performance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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