How knowledge management mediates the relationship between environment and organizational structure

Chechen Liao, Shu-Hui Chuang and Pui-Lai To

Journal of Business Research, 2011, vol. 64, issue 7, 728-736

Abstract: Literature examining how knowledge management (KM) capability helps organizational structures cope with uncertainty is limited. Thus, this study builds and tests an integrated model to investigate the relationship among environmental uncertainty, KM capability, and organizational structure. Data from 161 firms were collected and analyzed. The results from structural equation model analysis support a mediating KM capability between environmental uncertainty and structural attributes. Environmental uncertainty tends to require firms to increase their KM capability, which in turn manifests itself in structural changes.

Keywords: Knowledge; management; Environmental; uncertainty; Organizational; structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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