Pages: 96-108

Abstract

The present study is aimed to investigate the relations between knowledge management (KM) and organizational innovation. The statistical population was consisted of all manufacturing companies with their main sites located in industrial towns in vicinity of Ahwaz city of Iran. 488 companies were located and the required size of the sample (216 companies) was calculated using the Cochran’s formula. Therefore, a number of questionnaires were distributed through a random sampling procedure and 219 questionnaires filled out by company managers were collected. The data were analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software packages. The findings suggest that knowledge management is positively and significantly related to organizational innovation. Also it is shown that positive and significant relations exist between the components of knowledge management, namely knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge application as well as with organizational innovation.