The Mediation Role of Knowledge Sharing Between Organizational Learning and Technological Innovation Practice

• Published in: International journal of knowledge management Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 48 - 68
• Main Authors: Wang, Zhimin, Kwek, Choon Ling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey IGI Global 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Absorptive capacity; Analysis; Competition; Competitive advantage; Data collection; Empirical analysis; Employees; Innovations; Intellectual capital; Investigations; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Learning; Manufacturing; Manufacturing industry; Mediation; Organizational learning; Strategic management; Honduras; Malaysia
• ISSN: 1548-0666; 1548-0658
• DOI: 10.4018/IJKM.2018070104

This article investigates the mediation role of knowledge management according to the dimensions of knowledge donating and knowledge collecting. The collected data was based on a total of 157 managers from the manufacturing industries will be evaluated by applying the PLS-SEM and fsQCA. The empirical outcomes based on PLS-SEM analysis demonstrate that organizational learning positively impacts on knowledge donating and knowledge collecting. This study confirms that both the knowledge donating and knowledge collecting act as mediators in mediating the positive relationship between organizational learning and the technological innovation practice. The fsQCA results indicate that the conditional support for the proposed antecedent and outcome expectation of the organizational learning. Moreover, the findings of fsQCA analysis also show that the complex solutions with three combinations sufficiently explain the technological innovation practice.