Shaping knowledge management: organization and national culture

نویسندگان

  • Rémy Magnier-Watanabe
  • Dai Senoo
چکیده

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to confirm quantitatively the previous finding that organizational characteristics influence knowledge management, and to assess whether the national culture of knowledge workers equally affects the management of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data gathered from a questionnaire survey of a Japanese pharmaceutical company’s 14 foreign subsidiaries, the effects of organizational characteristics and national culture on knowledge management were tested using multiple regression analysis. Findings – Although organizational characteristics and national culture were found to affect knowledge management, the data showed organizational characteristics to be a stronger prescriptive factor compared with national culture. Research limitations/implications – Because this research centered on a single company in the pharmaceutical industry, future research should attempt to confirm the validity of this framework in other industries. Practical implications – Changes in organizational characteristics, such as structure and relationship in particular, rather than adjustments in the composition of employees’ nationalities, will have a stronger impact on the resulting knowledge management. Originality/value – This framework linking organizational characteristics and national culture to knowledge management had received a first justification using a case study approach with a qualitative comparative method and has now been confirmed with a quantitative approach. Among the predictors of knowledge management beyond the realm of deliberate measures within the firm, the data show that organizational characteristics exert a stronger influence than national culture.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Knowledge Management

دوره 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010