Abstract
Information technology (IT) is applied in many settings of knowledge management (KM) under the premise that a manufacturing organization will gain direct benefit from the investment. However, direct links from investment in IT to organizational performance have always been elusive. Strategic management research presents a concept of dynamic capabilities to model the ability of an organization to respond effectively to changes in the environment and leverage performance. By using this capability as a mediating variable, IT support of KM is shown to indirectly benefit manufacturing organizations in a sample of managers from 500 manufacturing firms in Taiwan. This link indicates firms must carefully align the IT support to strategic needs.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2419-2434 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | International Journal of Production Research |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2007 |
Keywords
- Dynamic capability
- IT support
- Knowledge management