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The Impact Of The Environment Uncertainty On The Results Of The Knowledge Management Strategy Implements

Posted on:2010-05-24Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X S LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1101360275974174Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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In recent years, with the profound change in business and technological environment, a growing number of enterprise managers and researchers begin to pay attention to the significance of knowledge resources to obtain a competitive advantage. In China, the knowledge management practice has changed from the original "cognitive level" stage to a "reusable class" stage, knowledge management has become the consensus of the business community. On the other hand, the mode of knowledge management has gradually changed from the initial "technical" management as the core to a "person" management as the core. Considering a variety of opportunities and threats in the environment, measuring their own strengths and weaknesses, selecting the appropriate knowledge management strategy, and creating competitive advantages have become the key to survival and sustainable growth for a business in the face of high environmental uncertainty. It often leads enterprise knowledge management to failure, and even the failure of the enterprise's own as because ignoring the effect of environmental factors on the implementation of knowledge management strategy in Management practices.Against this background, this paper analyses the issue of knowledge management strategy from the perspective of the business environmental uncertainty based on the practice of knowledge management strategy. The study mainly concentrates on two areas: the effect of the implementation of knowledge management strategy under the certain environment, as well as the environmental uncertainty as a regulatory under the uncertain environment.Through the induction and analysis of the pertinent theory, as well as cross-case studies, we build a research framework based on the environment of uncertainty, knowledge management strategies and performance. On this basis, we design the measuring variables of the various factors and the questionnaire, and launch a large-scale questionnaire. We use survey data to verify the model and the hypothesis. Empirical results show that our proposed model have been verified, not only providing empirical support for some of the views of previous studies, but also putting forward some new ideas and realizing the depth and expansion of the existing theory. At the same time, the conclusion of the study has also a certain significance to business practice. Compared with the existing knowledge management strategic research, innovative work of this article mainly manifests in the following three aspects:First, this paper explores the impact of environment uncertainty on the results of the knowledge management strategy implements from the external environment vision, however, the traditional research on the knowledge management strategy is carried out in internal relationship of enterprises, which puts great emphasis on the impact of the enterprise culture, organization structure, human resource management caused on the results of knowledge management strategy implementation. This makes the original theory more comprehensive, specific and deepgoing.Second,The study shows: Environment uncertainty can regulate the relationship between knowledge management strategy and performance, not but actuates the function through the exploring case study of Chongqing biology drugs manufacture A, B, C and D Corporation. This puts forward the research hypothesis requiring empirical test of large sample further. Also, it reveals that the implementation of knowledge management strategy which employs IT-centered strategy , capture-based strategy , Learning-based strategy,has different impacts on the enterprise performance on condition that there are different environmental dynamics, complexity and threat.Third,The empirical study shows: The IT-centered strategy has positive impact on the long-term performance; The capture-based strategy has positive impact on the short-term performance and negative influence to the long-term performance; Learning-based strategy has positive impacts on firms'long-term performance; The interaction of IT-centered strategy and capture-based strategy has positive influence to the short-term performance and negative influence to the long-term performance; The interaction of IT-centered strategy and Learning-based strategy has positive impact on the long-term performance; The interaction of capture-based strategy and Learning-based strategy has also positive impact on the long-term performance; The interaction of IT-centered strategy separately with environment dynamic, complexity and hostility has negative influence to short-term and long-term; The interaction of capture-based strategy separately with the environment dynamic, complexity and hostility correlation has the negative impact on the long-term performance; The interaction of Learning-based strategy separately with environment dynamic, complexity and hostility has positive influence to the long-term performance.
Keywords/Search Tags:knowledge management strategy, environmental uncertainty, firm performance, regulatory variable, cross-case studies
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