RESUMENEste estudio analiza la relación directa entre las actividades de innovación y las de gestión del conocimiento con la capacidad competitiva organizacional. Los resultados indican que, para el caso de una muestra de 53 empresas estudiadas en la ciudad de Bogotá, no hay evidencia de esa relación. Estos resultados son motivo para la reflexión académica, empresarial y del gobierno sobre el tema, si se tiene en cuenta que son diversos y reiterados los escenarios en los que se hace énfasis sobre la necesidad de implementar actividades de innovación y de gestión del conocimiento para potenciar la capacidad competitividad empresarial y nacional, dando por supuesta la existencia de relación directa entre estas variables, lo cual no siempre es así.Palabras clave. Gestión del conocimiento; innovación; competitividad empresarial.

Purpose: This study provides empirical evidence on the innovations that Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) in Colombia have implemented within their own management to address social problems which are the object of their institutional mission.Design/methodology/approach: This research is based on information obtained from a survey applied to executives of Colombian NPOs. Multiple linear regression models were developed to check the partial effect of the set of independent variables (Organizational and Social Innovation) over the dependent variable (Organizational Performance). Main Components Analysis was applied to grouping the considered variables.Findings: Empirical evidence indicates that Colombian NPOs are innovative organizations that advisedly follow management strategies for this purpose. Colombian NPOs have been innovating for their disposition to tackle the social problems implicated in their institutional mission. Evidence indicates that the main components derived from NPOs’ organizational and social innovations are grouped into four: NPO innovation actions to adapt to the environment; internal innovation actions to improve NPO’s performance; variables related with NPO innovation actions to improve their relations with external agents; innovation actions aimed at improving the management of social interventions associated with the mission of the NPOs and the management of institutional projects.Research limitations/implications: The field work only used the survey technique to obtain the information and only assessed the perception of one of the directors of each of the NPOs participating in the study in terms of both the actions of organizational innovation such as social innovation and organizational performance. Therefore, the study undoubtedly presents bias in that perception.The technique used for the selection of the sample of the participants was a non-probabilistic sampling, which implies bias in the information and therefore, limitation for the generalization of the results to other contexts. The geographical location of the administration of the NPOs was restricted to Bogota and surrounding municipalities.Originality/value: An analysis of the relationship between social and organizational innovations with organizational performance in NPOs was carried out in the context of an emerging economy, where the subject has been very little studied and much less with principal component analysis. This in order to contribute to a better understanding of the subject.

This article discusses several case studies of knowledge management and shows that there is a high degree of consistency between this concept and the organizational approach to knowledge management. It also demonstrates, however, that there is a significant difference in the relevance given to the constituent variables of management at each organization. This is a very important aspect to consider in designing, implementing, and evaluating any program in this field. These results were obtained from an investigation conducted in two phases. The first phase deals with a theoretical review of the concept of and approaches to knowledge management, and the second phase is related to the work in the field, which involved interviewing 10 managers and conducting surveys among 525 individuals from four leading organizations in market share penetration in the manufacturing and service sectors based in Bogota, Colombia.

Este estudio analiza la importancia que las organizaciones dan en Colombia a la gerencia del conocimiento, para responder a los retos del actual orden económico mundial. Para ello se aplicó una encuesta a 2.249 personas en 83 organizaciones de diferentes tama¿nos y sectores de actividad económica, localizadas en la ciudad de Bogotá. En general, los resultados indican que la gerencia del conocimiento no es una práctica usual en estas organizaciones, situación que contrasta desfavorablemente con el alto grado de importancia que las organizaciones en los países desarrollados dan a estas actividades, consideradas como estratégicas para potenciar su capacidad innovadora y competitividad sostenible. Rasgos estos de los que en general adolecen las empresas en Colombia y los cuales son necesarios potenciar.This study analyses the importance that organizations in Colombia give to knowledge management in order to meet the challenges of the current world economic order. To determine this a survey was carried out on 2,249 people in 83 organizations of different sizes and economic sectors, located in the city of Bogota. Overall, the results indicate that knowledge management is not a usual practice in these organizations, which contrasts with the high degree of importance that organizations in developed countries place on these activities that are considered as strategic to enhance innovative capacity and sustainable competitivenes

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