Research on the Relationship between Knowledge Management Infrastructure, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management Performance

Author

Xue Jie ; Zhang Zhengang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Public Adm., South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-26 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of KM infrastructure on knowledge sharing and KM performance. Knowledge sharing is the center of KM, so we take knowledge sharing as a mediator variable in the impact of KM infrastructure on KM performance. Based on the survey of enterprises from IT and software industry in Pearl River Delta, this paper examined the relationship between KM infrastructure, knowledge sharing and KM performance. The results revealed that KM infrastructure positively and significantly influenced the knowledge sharing, and knowledge sharing was an important mediator between KM infrastructures and KM performance.

Keywords

DP industry; knowledge management; organisational aspects; IT industry; KM infrastructure; KM performance; enterprises; knowledge management infrastructure; knowledge management performance; knowledge sharing; software industry; Gold; Industries; Knowledge management; Mathematical model; Organizations; Reliability; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5325-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5326-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2010.5577022

Filename

5577022