Analysing the Relationship Between Components of Knowledge Orientation Strategy in Chilean Enterprises

Abstract

Research performed in the latter part of the prior decade arrived at a strategy-intellectual capital (IC) management alignment framework that presented two alternative orientations for managing IC: People-based networks, and Technology-based networks. Interestingly it was found that these two types of networks were mutually exclusive, that is that organisations would opt for one or the other, not both. Under suspicion that there could be a shift in this paradigm over the last five years, this research is conducted to find out if organizations really have to choose between these two types of network. The strategy-knowledge management alignment model is tested by doing a survey on knowledge orientation in 54 Chilean companies, and it concludes that, in effect, that the model is no longer valid. On the positive side, this research finds a set of variables that closely represent the three constructs. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.