Our paper revisits this research problem by drawing on complementanty themy 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. All rights reserved.