Organization Culture

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Abstract
Measuring and managing intellectual capital through knowledge management (KM)
has been perceived the most important issue in knowledge-intensive companies.@
It has been suggested that a supportive corporate culture cornerstones not
only a successful implementation of KM system but also the effectiveness of an
organization.@It is essential therefore to enhance our knowledge in
interrelationships among corporate culture, KM, intellectual capital and
operating performance.@Using a sample of firms listed in TSE and OTC and a
questionnaire as research tool, this thesis explores the typologies of
corporate culture and KM, and their impacts on intellectual capital and
financial performance.
The empirical evidence indicates that the attributes of corporate culture are
significantly associated with the attributes of KM activities.@Both corporate
culture and KM shed significant impacts on cognitive importance of intellectual
capitals.@Firms with distinct corporate culture, placing more foci on human
resource development, innovation and market competition tend to have more
intensive knowledge management activities, information technology utilization,
and exchange and lash of knowledge between the members of the organization.@
Compared to firms with low innovative-bureaucratic culture, firms with high
effective-supportive culture concentrate more on all aspects related to human
capital and innovation capital.
Compared to other firms in the sample, firms with high flexibility-high degree
of knowledge management activities focus more on human capital, innovation
capital, and process capital.@Compared to firms with high control-low degree
knowledge management activities, companies characterized with humanistic-
medium degree knowledge management activities emphasize more on innovation
capital.
The findings also show that both corporate culture attributes and components
of human cap...