A study of the influence of organizational knowledge ability and knowledge absorptive capacity on organization performance in Taiwan's hi-tech enterprises

Abstract

In recent years, business operation tends to be internationalized and the production cost increases day by day, the technology promotion of Taiwan's hi-tech enterprises met its bottleneck, lots of industries, have introduced Knowledge Management (KM) and emphasized the knowledge absorptive capacity of the employees to promote the organizational business performance under this competition environment. This research studied the influence bf organizational knowledge ability and knowledge absorptive capacity on organization performance in Taiwan's hi-tech enterprises. The research found that: the industry with strong organizational knowledge ability has positive influence on organization performance; the industry with strong organizational knowledge ability has positive influence on knowledge absorptive capacity and the industry with strong knowledge absorptive capacity has positive influence on organization performance. Therefore, the organizational knowledge ability and knowledge absorption capacity of Taiwan's high-tech enterprises have positive influence on the promotion of their organization performance. © 2008 Asian Network for Scientific Information.