Open AccessKnowledge Management and Value Creation: Evidence from Tunisian Companies
Author(s) -
Sana Ouechtati,
Samir Mellouli
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
business and management horizons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2326-0297
DOI - 10.5296/bmh.v6i1.12621
Subject(s) - intellectual capital , value creation , business , value (mathematics) , empirical evidence , knowledge creation , social capital , knowledge management , exploratory research , knowledge value chain , industrial organization , organizational learning , marketing , sociology , social science , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , downstream (manufacturing)
Knowledge management is considered as a way to well manage the intellectual capital of the company. The remarkable importance of knowledge management is reflected in the growing importance of its place in the world of economics. The objective of this paper is to study the impact of knowledge management on the different types of value creation such as economic, social, institutional and instrumental. To achieve this goal, we used a quantitative study of 35 Tunisian companies operating in different sectors. The empirical results of the exploratory analysis show that knowledge management has a significant impact on both economic value. On the contrary, it has a mixed impact on both social value.