The extant research investigating the relationship between knowledge management (KM) strategies and organizational perfor- mance has yielded inconclusive results.
Our paper revisits this research problem by drawing on complementanty theory from Economics.
The empirical segment of our work is based on data on KM strategies and organizational performance from a sample of 131 Korean firms. Our results suggest three types of relationship among KM strategies: non-complementarity, and non-critical symmetric complementarity, and asymmetric complementarity. Integrating explicit-oriented with tacit-oriented KM strategies showed non-complementarity.
which suggests a drag on obtaining higher levels of organizational perlormance our analysis of KM strategies based on KM source shows that companies could benefit from KM by implementing extemal-riented or internal- oriented strategy.
Combining the tact-internal-oriented and explicit-external-oriented KM strategies indicates a complementarity relationship.
which implies synergis effects of KM strategies on performance. 2006 Elsevier Ltd.
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