The impact of Knowledge Sharing on Innovation and Performance

This study was conducted with objective to determine the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation with performance in manufacturing companies and trading of Guilan province (Iran). Nowadays organizational performance and its management has become one of the most attractive topics and interest. Thus current study sought to examine the impact of knowledge management, innovation and performance of manufacturing and trading companies in the Guilan province based on causal model. Method of this research is descriptive - analytical and in term of objective is considered applied. Statistical population of this research includes manufacturing and trading companies in Guilan province. Sampling method is simple random that 103 companies is selected for sample. Data collection method is field and the questionnaire used as the data collection tool. Content validity is used for validity of the questionnaire and Cronbachʹs alpha coefficient is used to determine reliability. The structural equation modelling technique was used to test the research hypotheses that finally all hypotheses were confirmed except for the sixth hypothesis.