Impact of Knowledge Management Strategy on Organizational Learning: A Simulation Study

This study examines the relationship between an organization’s knowledge management strategy and its learning culture and environment. Knowledge management strategies are often perceived as technological solutions; however their effectiveness is the outcome of how effectively the behavioral changes that these strategies pertain are brought about. The first part of this study aims at identifying the learning cultures that are most conducive to the acquisition and sharing of both tacit and explicit knowledge. The second part of this study focuses on implementing incentive mechanisms within the organization that induce the optimal learning behaviors identified in the first part of the study. March’s (1991) model for organizational learning is employed in the context of knowledge management systems (KMS) to analyze the effectiveness of the various knowledge management strategies in different organizational settings.