دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی فرآیندهای مدیریت دانش و مزیت رقابتی پایدار: یک آزمون تجربی در دانشگاه خصوصی - الزویر 2018

ABSTRACT

In modern times, it has come to the realization of organizations that acquiring knowledge and using it in an effective manner is the only way to have a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in the marketplace. This means that the resources of an organization must include knowledge, which should always be cared for and developed upon. When it comes to private colleges and universities, these are really just investments for the future businesspeople of the world. Through knowledge management processes (KMP), the knowledge they end up processing from these educational institutions will help them decide the direction in which they go in the future and how competitive they will be in the business world. But when it comes to knowledge-based view (KBV) and resource-based view (RBV), there is no clear explanation between them and how much the competitive advantage that KMP provides can be sustained. In this study, we will look at how and why SCA can be created by KMP from the educational environment's KBV and RBV. In order to achieve the objective, a hypothesis was created along with a quantitative survey method of design. The initiation of the structural equation modelling (SEM) method helped determine the relationship between the study variables through deductive approach. The respondents of this study are comprised of 525 academic leaders with varying positions from 44 private Iraqi universities. The results show a significant relationship between KMP and SCA. To attain a better SCA, private universities must generate knowledge, store knowledge, share knowledge and apply knowledge that is backed by identify of knowledge and formulating of its goals throughout every aspect of the organization. The research adds to the active group of knowledge that is currently available in the area of strategic knowledge management.

9. Conclusion

This study has achieved its objectives successfully. However, this study has a number of limitations need to be highlighted. The first limitation, this study focused on private universities in Iraq. Therefore, the generalizability of the findings in this study is limited. This is putting limitations on the generalizability of the results to different national contexts. Thus, the researchers suggest that similar studies can be done in other countries in similar private universities. In addition, this study only involved the private sector. This places limitations on the generalizability of the results to the public sector or the public universities in an academic environment. Therefore, the researcher suggests that similar studies can be done in public sector or public universities. The second limitation is the lack of other empirical studies to support the relationships between the variables as determined in this study. The third limitation, this study used the responses of academic leaders possess variety of positions such as chancellors, vice chancellors, deans, deputy deans, and heads of departments, heads of division, and heads of centres, assuming that their judgments regarding KMP and SCA are objective. The fourth limitation, this study is limited to knowledge management processes issues which are critical in a developing country like Iraq that has gone through difficult times. The fifth limitation, the study used overall variables (second order constructs) of KMP and SCA, to examine the relationships among them. Therefore, the researcher suggests conducting an analysis of variables dimensions (first order construct) may reveal more specific and detailed findings regarding the relationship between the variables.