A Study of External Environment, Organizational Culture, Knowledge Management Capability and Organizational Innovation on Organizational Performance － An Empirical Study

• Main Authors: Ming-shing Lee, 李明興
• Other Authors: Su-chao Chiou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83752556479961606041

博士 === 國立成功大學 === 企業管理學系碩博士班 === 96 === When a company is under a rapidly changing and competitive environment, it is very important for a company to know how it manages knowledge resources effectively to advance its managerial capability, the ability of accommodating environment and innovative ability. The most effective way is to build the organizational knowledge management capability. Whether knowledge management and innovation can succeed or not, this is relative to organizational culture. When an organization promotes knowledge management, it needs to coordinate with a culture which emphasizes on innovation. The innovative culture can elaborate multiple effects of knowledge management in an organization. The study is discussed the influences of knowledge management capability and organizational innovation to organizational performance. Moreover, the study is additionally examined the effect of external environment and organizational culture to organizational performance. The study is expected to discuss the relationship among external environment, organizational culture, knowledge management capability, organizational innovation and performance. The findings can provide the companies under knowledge economic era to effectively apply knowledge management to advance organizational innovation and performance. The survey sample is based on top 5000 companies which are reported by China Credit Information Service, Ltd. We sent out 1100 mails of questionnaire survey totally and received 172 valid questionnaires (15.64%). The research findings are shown as following: 1.The effect of external environment is significant to organizational culture. 2.The effect of external environment is positively significant to knowledge management capability. 3.The effect of external environment is positively significant to organizational innovation. 4.The effect of organizational culture is positively significant to knowledge management capability. 5.The effect of organizational culture is positively significant to organizational innovation. 6.The effect of knowledge management capability is positively significant to organizational innovation. 7. The effect of knowledge management capability is positively significant to organizational performance. 8.The effect of organizational innovation is positively significant to organizational performance. 9.The effect of external environment is positively significant to organizational performance. 10.The effect of organizational culture is positively significant to organizational performance.