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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
JANURAY 2011
VOL 2, NO 9
Ordonez and Pablos (2003) knowledge-based resources in an economy with a dynamic
and complex competitive environment as the main characteristic of it show real source of
secure competitive benefit for the company. Detienne and Jackson (2001) wrote that:
"knowledge and knowledge management have been converted to the last strategy in
increasing of organizational competition". Also, Allred (2001) has stressed that
"knowledge is the heart of innovation and competition".
10. Growth
Strategy of a corporation for its growth, development, capability and skill could have a
considerable importance in relation with future value for the corporation. Today
innovation must be the main priority in the corporation more than any thing else and it
should be converted to a living procedure and thus it would be possible to predict
successful growth.
11. Innovation
Knowledge management in present market has a major role in innovation. Senior
management of the organization supports innovation as the first priority for long term
growth. Barbara Simpson (2001) wrote: "perhaps permanent management of innovation is
the most major separate work of the executive manager in the present business
environment". A corporation could be successful in accelerating of innovation through
organizational learning process; it first gains knowledge of the corporation and then shares
it with other members of the organization in a way to be accessible for all.
This research makes a relation between knowledge management and incremental and
radical innovation, thus helps more improvement of our understanding from organizational
benefits of effective knowledge management for competitive benefit and growth.
According to Twomey (22002) "as corporations design and implement strategies and
structures in order to gain access to competitive benefit and preserving and keeping of it,
capabilities and abilities of these corporations must be considered".
12. Research methodology and statistical analysis
Studying of the relation between knowledge management and organizational benefits and
intermediatory effect of organizational culture on this relation is the purpose of this
research. Conceptual model of this research is shown in figure 3 which is formed from the
relation of two models with each other. Model of competing values of Quinn and
McGragh (1985) provides a framework for organizational culture assessment and
Lawson's research (2002) is focused on knowledge management innovation and
organizational benefits and designed meters for measuring of them. This model relates
organizational culture (four dimensions of Quinn and Rohrbaugh) with knowledge
management and benefits of knowledge management as have been used by Lawson
(2002).
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