Evaluating Knowledge Management And Investigating The Role Of Knowledge Management On Organizational Innovation

Knowledge management is defined as the process of creating, collecting, storing, retrieving, sharing, and applying knowledge and information in an organization. Considering that information and knowledge were the first and last words in the present era, the importance of this field of management is clear and obvious. We live in a world that is undergoing rapid and inevitable changes due to globalization. In this world, the economy has moved towards a knowledge-based economy. Many of the current equations have challenged countries, which is itself the result of information and communication technology. In order to improve operations and provide more desirable services and products to individuals. Such organizations need to use a new style of management called 'knowledge management'. Organizational innovation is known as an important tool for organizations to compete in a competitive environment. And organizations in all aspects of business try to consider knowledge management processes and human resource productivity as valuable and strategic assets to develop organizational innovation. In the economic structure of developed countries, the balance between knowledge and other resources has changed in favor of knowledge, so that the way of using new knowledge-based technologies and how to implement their processes is a decisive factor in improving the flexibility of intra-organizational processes. This has helped organizations to identify new opportunities and create a sustainable competitive advantage in the context of organizational learning and the establishment of a knowledge management system and manage the challenges they face well. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and organizational innovation.

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Knowledge Management , Organization , Innovation , Process , Performance