This work –undertaken from the knowledge-based view of the firm– tries to investigate whether there are groups of firms with homogeneous behaviours, as regards knowledge management, which we call KMS, and tries to identify what influence these
behaviours have on innovation management, innovation efficiency and firm performance.
The dimensions and variables used in this work allow us to analyze the most relevant KMS aspects. They also provide a way to overcome some of the limitations of earlier studies, because the present work establishes a new KMS