The Impact of Knowledge Management on Organizational Learning in Universities

In today's information and technology-driven markets, knowledge has an important role to play in gaining and maintaining competitive advantage and improving organizational performance. Since knowledge is the most important competitive advantage tool, effective management of knowledge will increase organizational performance. The knowledge management process is a process that includes activities related to the systematic acquisition, transformation, use, and protection of knowledge in order to better achieve organizational goals. This process develops depending on technology, culture, organizational structure, and human factors. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of knowledge management on organizational learning for 650 academicians working at universities in Istanbul. As a result of the structural equation model, a positive 68.1% increasing relationship was determined between the knowledge management and organizational learning.