mojtaba rafiei; Hosein Balochi; Majid Nematollahi; Samira Mottaghi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2016, , Pages 121-140
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to enhance the capability of companies in product innovation using organizational knowledge.Therefore, this paper is dealing with examining the effect of organizational knowledge on performance and innovation of new products at knowledge-based companies of Science and Technology ...
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The purpose of this paper is to enhance the capability of companies in product innovation using organizational knowledge.Therefore, this paper is dealing with examining the effect of organizational knowledge on performance and innovation of new products at knowledge-based companies of Science and Technology Park located in Khorasan Razavi Province and clarifying that if organizational knowledge leads to innovation of new products and performance improvement? Thus, important factors that link knowledge, performance and product innovation of organizations has been presented in a structural model. The research statistical universe included Science and Technology Park companies in Razavi Khoerasan province. To reach the sample mass, convenience sampling method was used. A standard questionnaire was used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by convergent and divergent validity and its reliability confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability. To test the hypothesis, Structural Equations Modeling and Partial Least Squares approaches by WARP PLS software was used.The results of this study showed that organizational knowledge affects on innovative information, information acquisition efficiency and its interpretation. The effect of efficiency of acquisition information on the performance of the new product was not confirmed.Organizational structuremoderated the relationship between organizational knowledge and informationacquisition and its efficiency but the moderator role of this variable was not significant in the relationship between organizational knowledge and information interpretation
