The effect of strategic learning on information capital strengthening with the mediating role of organizational knowledge architecture case study: Knowledge base companies of Tehran science and technology park

Abstract

In the current era, the growing size of information technology and the need for organizations to survive and compete, has caused organizations ignoring this issue to decline and be eliminated from the competition cycle. Accordingly, the aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of strategic learning on strengthening information capital by analyzing the mediating role of organizational knowledge architecture. The present study is descriptive-correlational in terms of practical purpose and in terms of data collection method. The statistical population includes 600 knowledge-based companies located in Tehran Science and Technology Park. According to Morgan’s table, 235 employees of these companies were selected using haphazard random sampling method. The main tools of data collection, questionnaire and data analysis were also performed using structural equation modeling. The research findings show that strategic learning has a direct and significant effect on strengthening the information capital of knowledge-based companies and also indirectly affects the strengthening of information capital through the intermediate variable of organizational knowledge architecture. The results show that strategic learning is one of the important factors influencing the strengthening of information capital of knowledge-based companies, which affects the strengthening of information capital both directly and through organizational knowledge architecture. Also, the results of strategic learning topics, organizational knowledge architecture and information capital bring theoretical innovations and help managers and stakeholders of knowledge-based companies in understanding and how to influence strategic learning to strengthen information capital by emphasizing organizational knowledge architecture.