Knowledge management capabilities -an empirical investigation

Abstract

Many authors have worked on the impacts of KM in business sector but very few on its influence on academic performance (AP). The studies on KM concept and its applications suggested that both process capability and strategy capability could drive innovation and improve institutional performance. However, these studies were not empirically validated thereby subjecting their findings to dispute. Grouping KM Capabilities into three, and adopting Survey method where questionnaires were administered to extract data from 10 Nigerian universities, this study empirically examines the relationship amongst the KM capabilities components and their influence on AP. SPSS was used to the data. Frequency and percentage count were used to analyse the demographic data while factor analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were used for the hypotheses. The results showed that there is a significant relationship amongst the KM capabilities components and that a positive linear relationship exists between the KM capabilities and the key AP indicators thereby suggesting that KM capabilities has a positive influence on AP. Nigerian institutions are to be giving more attention to Enabler Capabilities which proved to be the most influencing factor amongst the indicators.