Knowledge management adoption and its impact on organizational learning and non-financial performance

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the determinants of knowledge management (KM) adoption on organizational and individual level, as well as its impact on non-financial performance through an intermediary of organizational learning (“OL”). The KM adoption model was constructed by using a combination of TOE (Technology, Organizational and Environment) for the organizational level and TPE (Technology, Personal, and Environmental) framework for the individual level; this we called the TOPE (Technology, Personal, Organizational, and Environment) framework. Questionnaires were sent to 60 Indonesian big companies which participated in the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Award. Data from 139 respondents (51 companies) was analysed using partial least squares (PLS). This study showed the most essential factors influencing KM adoption and practice are perceived usefulness, ease of use of KM technology, industrial factors, management support, organization culture, and IT infrastructure. Meanwhile, the factors that are loosely connected to adoption initiative and KM practice are mimetic pressure, strategic planning, and organizational structure. In addition, the result of this study inferred that KM adoption and implementation fairly impact on the improvement of non-financial performance by the intermediary of organizational learning capability improvement.

Determinants of e-learning adoption in higher education in Iraq an academics and students’ perspective

“…The environmental context is concerned with the organization's size and organization's structure, the organization's competitors, the macroeconomic context, and the regulatory environment. Based on the [43] definition, the environmental context is all regards to the platform where the organization operates, it describes the environmental situations in which the organization conducts the services [6], [44]. Accordingly, It includes the structure of the organization's competitors and regulatory environment [43].…”

“…One of the most important of these investments is in the e-learning environment to support teaching and learning [1]- [4]. Recently, e-learning has become one of the most critical technologies in terms of competition among higher education institutions (HEIs) toward reducing cost and motivating more students as well as fulfilling their educative obligations [5], [6]. A study by [7] has indicated that around 70% of higher education institutes adopt e-learning and they believe that e-learning is the future of education and the education organizations should pay more attention to e-learning for their longterm strategy.…”