The Role of Knowledge Management in the Financial  Performance of Small and Medium Companies

Marwah I Zaid; Russul Isam Noori Alqatrani; Hayder Ali Alasadi

doi:10.48165/sajssh.2023.4608

Authors

Marwah I Zaid Department of Management and Marketing of Oil and Gas, College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas, Basrah University for Oil and Gas, Basrah, Iraq
Russul Isam Noori Alqatrani Department of Management and Marketing of Oil and Gas, College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas, Basrah University for Oil and Gas, Basrah, Iraq
Hayder Ali Alasadi Department of Management and Marketing of Oil and Gas, College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas, Basrah University for Oil and Gas, Basrah, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/sajssh.2023.4608

Keywords:

Knowledge management, financial performance, small and medium companies

Abstract

This research aims to determine the effect knowledge management processes (knowledge generation, knowledge distribution, and application knowledge) on financial performance in the Malaysian small and medium companies. The descriptive analytical secondary and primary data was utilised as a tool for gathering data from 130 companies as a sample. The results display that there is a positive association among knowledge management with financial performance. The knowledge management represented in generation, distribute, and apply knowledge, and express it about performance through the perspectives of the financial perspective companies. As the research reached a set of conclusions, including that there the effect of knowledge management processes on raising level of performance.

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