Group Invariance: Culture, KM & IT Capability Perceptions

Author

Freeze, Ronald

Author_Institution

Arizona State Univ., AZ

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 2007

Abstract

Knowledge management (KM) enablers provide the leverage to impact the knowledge creation process. A knowledge sharing (KS) culture, considered a KM enabler, is cited as a significant contributor to the improvement and success of KM initiatives. However, comparisons of how KM capabilities and KS culture perform in similar contexts (same organization) but different goals (separate business units) are limited. Invariance testing is used as a method to assess the similarity between groups. Data collected from knowledge workers at two business units from a large microchip manufacturing company identifies KS cultural differences and yet provides evidence of similar functioning on the KM capability scales. The resulting analysis indicates that emphasizing and promoting KM capabilities and KS culture equally and simultaneously between different business units will result in dissimilar changes to the levels of each dimension

Keywords

business data processing; integrated circuit manufacture; knowledge management; organisational aspects; IT capability perception; business unit; group invariance testing; knowledge creation process; knowledge management; knowledge sharing culture; microchip manufacturing company; Area measurement; Companies; Costs; Cultural differences; Gold; Knowledge management; Management information systems; Manufacturing; Resource management; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2007.242

Filename

4076768