Influence of Strategic Knowledge Management on Firm Innovativeness and Performance

Davila, Guillermo; Varvakis, Gregorio; North, Klaus

doi:10.15728/bbr.2019.16.3.3

Guillermo Davila ^†† Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil E-mail: davila.guillermo@gmail.com

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1479-2585

Gregorio Varvakis ^ΩΩ Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil E-mail: g.varvakis@ufsc.br

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2576-4835

Klaus North ^¥¥ Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden Business School, Alemanha E-mail: klaus.north@gmail.com

Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden Business School, Alemanha

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5929-546X

† Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil E-mail: davila.guillermo@gmail.com

Ω Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil E-mail: g.varvakis@ufsc.br

¥ Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden Business School, Alemanha E-mail: klaus.north@gmail.com

Construct	Ind.	Item wording	Mean	loadings	Cronbach's Alpha	rho_A	Comp. Reliab.	AVE
Strategic Management of Knowledge	GE1	Our organization has a clear understanding of our current core knowledge	3.70	0.79	0.88	0.89	0.91	0.64
	GE2	Our organization has a clear view of what knowledge and competences are the most relevant for the objectives	3.71	0.84
	GE3	Our organization's knowledge and competences are evaluated systematically	3.08	0.77
	GE4	Our organization benchmarks our strategic knowledge against that of our competitors.	2.95	0.73
	GE5	Our organization explicitly recognizes knowledge as a key element in the strategic planning exercises.	3.87	0.78
	GE6	Our organization has a clear strategy for developing knowledge and competences.	3.17	0.87
Organizational Performance	DO1	Compared with the industry average, we are growing more rapidly.	3.47	0.69	0.84	0.85	0.89	0.61
	DO2	In general, our organization is performing better than it did 12 months ago.	3.91	0.70
	DO3	In general, our organization is performing better than it did five years ago.	4.14	0.77
	DO4	Over the past 12 months, our organization has met its performance objectives.	3.58	0.86
	DO5	Over the past five years, our organization has met its performance objectives.	3.75	0.87
	DO6	Compared with the industry average, we are more profitable.	Excluded
	DO7	Compared with the industry average, we have a greater market share.	Excluded
Innovation performance	IPD	Compared to our competitors, our company has been successful in creating innovations in Products and services for customers	3.67	0.82	0.88	0.89	0.91	0.68
	IPR	Compared to our competitors, our company has been successful in creating innovations in Production methods and processes	3.73	0.77
	IPG	Compared to our competitors, our company has been successful in creating innovations in Management practices	3.74	0.85
	IPM	Compared to our competitors, our company has been successful in creating innovations in Marketing practices	3.22	0.75
	IMO	Compared to our competitors, our company has been successful in creating innovations in Business models	3.58	0.91

	Innovation Performance	Organizational Performance	Strategic Management Of Knowledge
Innovation Performance	0.822
Organizational Performance	0.476	0.781
Strategic Management of Knowledge	0.522	0.448	0.797
(*) Correlations between constructs, square root of AVE in diagonal.

Construct	R²	Adjusted R²		Q²
Construct	R²	R²	sign (p).	Q²
Innovation Performance	0.280	0.262	0.000	0.487
Organizational Performance	0.322	0.300	0.000	0.413

Hypotheses	β coef.	Stand. Dev.	sign (ρ).	f²	Result
H1. SKM practices -> Innovation Performance	0.520**	0.071	0.000	0.376	Accepted
H2. SKM practices -> Organizational Performance	0.281**	0.096	0.003	0.085	Accepted
H3. Innovation Performance -> Organizational Performance	0.310**	0.102	0.002	0.102	Accepted
Effects of controls
Firm age -> Innovation Performance	-0.066	0.080	0.409	0.005
Firm age -> Organizational Performance	-0.131	0.072	0.070	0.019
Firm size -> Innovation Performance	-0.026	0.098	0.790	0.001
Firm size -> Organizational Performance	-0.104	0.075	0.168	0.012

[1] † Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil E-mail: davila.guillermo@gmail.com

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