José Arias-Pérez, Esteban López-Zapata, Andrea Echeverri-Bedoya
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the mediating effect of the knowledge management strategies on the relationship between e-business capabilities and innovation performance. The research model was tested with a sample of 102 firms belonging to IT intensive sectors, located in an emerging country that is a regional leader in terms of e-business adoption. Structural equations by the consistent partial least squares method were used. The main result indicates that only the personalization strategy has a partial mediating effect. In conclusion, e-business capability alone is insufficient for achieving a superior innovation performance. This finding also helps consolidate the incipient study perspective that understands knowledge management not as an antecedent variable which becomes indispensable for e-business adoption, but as an organizational factor that intervenes a posteriori and which is focused on achieving an effective use of all the knowledge resulting from the digital operation of the business.
期刊介绍:
Technical Faculty in Bor, University of Belgrade has started publishing the journal called Serbian Journal of Management during the year 2006. This journal is an international medium for the publication of work on the theory and practice of management science.