The Relationship Between Knowledge Management and R&D Performance: A Case Study in Auto Industry

Syyedhamzeh Nejadhussein (), M. A. Hamid Rahimian and Seyed Muhammed Hussein Mousavinasab
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Syyedhamzeh Nejadhussein: Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
M. A. Hamid Rahimian: Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
Seyed Muhammed Hussein Mousavinasab: IRIB Head Office of Television Training and Research, Tehran, Iran

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2014, vol. 11, issue 05, 1-18

Abstract: This paper has studied correlation between knowledge management (KM) and performance of research and development (R&D) in a major automobile manufacturing company. Two questionnaires were used. Choy's "KM performance outcomes" approach was used for KM and customized balanced score card (BSC) model for measuring R&D centers' performance. The population consisted of all R&D employees in a company that has been working in auto industry, along with all its 12 subsidiaries which had R&D centers. Then three out of 12 companies were selected by cluster sampling from which 90 people were chosen to complete the questionnaires. The results showed a significant positive correlation between KM and the performance of R&D centers as well as three aspects of BSC, i.e. customer, internal processes and innovation. For the other aspects, the findings did not show any significant correlations.

Keywords: KM; knowledge management practices; knowledge management enablers; R&D performance; BSC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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