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On Using Organizational Knowledge Capabilities to Assist Organizational Learning

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Knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning (OL) are attracting increasing attention from both academics and practitioners in the knowledge economy era. Recognizing the dynamics of KM research, organizational knowledge from a capability-based perspective is advocated as an essential force to aid a firm’s growth. Learning embedded in organizational activities is viewed as a knowledge process that facilitates innovation. In this study, we take organizational knowledge capability (OKC) and process-oriented OL as the two primary research variables. Additionally, we consider OKC as a socio-technical system and divide it into social-based OKC and technical-based OKC, which tries to assist the development of process-oriented OL. Our objective is to construct a relationship between OKC and OL. Specifically, we propose a conceptual model that shows the KM–OL link, and advance research propositions for future empirical testing.

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This research is partially sponsored by the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan, R.O.C. under Grant No: 96-2416-H-606-002-MY2.

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    Chyan Yang

  2. Department of Information Management, National Defense, Taiwan, China

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    Yang, C., Chen, LC. (2009). On Using Organizational Knowledge Capabilities to Assist Organizational Learning. In: King, W. (eds) Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. Annals of Information Systems, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0011-1_18

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