Research On The Evaluation System Of Knowledge Management In Chinese Garment Enterprises

In the knowledge economy era, knowledge has become the most significant resource forenterprises. It is the common sense among scholars both at home and abroad that enterprises canimprove their innovation and reaction capacities by knowledge management, which representsthe development trend of the enterprise management at21st century. As an important componentof China’s economic development, clothing industry calls for higher and higher levels ofknowledge management under the background of the economy globalization. While at present,studies on the knowledge management system of clothing enterprises are rare in academic circle,and the specificity of clothing enterprises also make previous evaluation systems of knowledgemanagement of enterprises not quite applicable to the clothing industry. Therefore, the aim ofthis paper is to build up a scientific and effective evaluation system of knowledge managementfor clothing enterprises, find out weaknesses in implementing knowledge management andprovide some improvement advices.First of all, the paper will define clothing knowledge, introduce the knowledge managementinto clothing enterprises and build up the knowledge management theory including its purpose,character, connotation and model by concluding domestic and overseas knowledge managementtheories and models and elaborating related concepts of the knowledge management evaluationof enterprises.Second, by using Michael E. Porter’s value chain theory and combining the managementtheory of clothing enterprises mentioned above,5first-level indexes of human resource,organizational culture, informationization, knowledge value chain and externalknowledgeablization will be confirmed. In addition,25secondary evaluation indexes ofknowledge management for clothing enterprises will be designed in accordance with certainprinciples of index designs. After carrying out the index selection by Delphi method, thesesecondary indexes will be finalized. To identify every index weight and the evaluation model,Fuzzy TriangularAHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) will be adopted.In the end, by applying the evaluation model of knowledge management to multiple clothing enterprises to conduct indistinct integration evaluation, the evaluation result isconsistent with practical situations of the enterprises, which verifies the validity and rationalityof this system. And after organizing and analyzing evaluation results of many enterprises, theauthor will put forward some improvement advices. These advices may have some instructivesignificance to the knowledge management of clothing enterprises.