Goudarzvand-Chegini M, Farahbod F, Bejar F. Effective Factors on Knowledge Management (KM) Application in Guilan Province’s Manufacturing Companies. JMDP 2013; 26 (3) :133-160
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Abstract: (8520 Views)
Complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly
evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where
inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness
or even survival among rivals. Today, organizations have come to the point
that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably
successful in a competitive world. Accordingly, this research pursues
the goal of explaining how corporate performance is boosted through
knowledge management and innovation in the manufacturing companies
that enjoy research and development (R&D) units in Guilan province.
Methodologically speaking, the paper is a descriptive-analytical research
emphatically based on correlation. Research population includes all R&D
units-owning manufacturing companies in Guilan, totaling 57 companies.
The researchers used simple probability sampling for collecting data to
select 39 companies out of whole. A questionnaire was designed to collect
the related data whose validity and reliability were tested. Descriptive-inferential
statistics was employed by the help of SPSS-19 and Visual PLS-
1.04 applications in order to analyze the data. The findings showed through
path analysis that there were meaningful relations between knowledge
management capability and innovation value of speed from one side, and
between innovation value of speed and company’s performance.
Type of Study:
Research |
Subject:
Public Administration Received: Nov 19 2014 | Accepted: Nov 19 2014 | ePublished: Nov 19 2014