The effect of knowledge management on organizational entrepreneurship in Iran Khodro Company

Dissertation to receive Master's degree (M.A)

Trend of "transformation"

Autumn 93

Abstract of the thesis (including summary, objectives, implementation methods and results obtained):

The purpose of the present research is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and organizational entrepreneurship in Iran Khodro Company. For this purpose, after reviewing the research literature, 7 hypotheses including one main hypothesis and six sub-hypotheses were formulated. A questionnaire distributed among the statistical community was used to test the research hypotheses. The statistical population of this research is made up of the employees of the production department of Iran Khodro company, both men and women, including 310 people of any age, of which a sample of 173 people was selected according to the statistical population of the research using Cochran's formula by random sampling. In this research, descriptive statistics techniques were used to investigate and analyze demographic variables and Spearman's correlation tests as well as multiple regression analysis were used to analyze hypotheses. The results show that the correlation between knowledge management and organizational entrepreneurship is 0.797 and is at a high level. All knowledge management components including knowledge creation with correlation coefficient (.698), knowledge maintenance with correlation coefficient (.679), knowledge transfer with correlation coefficient (.748) and knowledge application with correlation coefficient (.743) have a positive effect on organizational entrepreneurship. Also, the coefficient of determination indicates that knowledge management as an independent variable explains 62.6 percent of the changes in the dependent variable of organizational entrepreneurship. And the amount of beta obtained in the regression for the knowledge transfer variable is 0.325 and for knowledge application is 0.560, which is significant at the level below 0.05. In the end, by using non-parametric binomial test, it was determined that the status of knowledge management and organizational entrepreneurship and all its dimensions in Iran Khodro Company is unfavorable. Keywords: knowledge management, organizational entrepreneurship. The wave of these changes affects the lives of all of us, willingly or unwillingly. Therefore, a society that has skilled and specialized, creative and self-confident human resources will lead the way in adapting to changes and global competition. In this new spirit, our country needs a dynamic and progressive educational system more than ever. The rapid growth of the population and the increase in the unemployment rate, especially among high school graduates, and the limited capacity of universities in accepting students of this level are the challenges that our society is involved in. In the current situation, one of the factors that change the economic, social and industrial face of a country is entrepreneurial activities, possessing an entrepreneurial spirit and ultimately human entrepreneurship. According to Timmons (1990), entrepreneurship is the creation of something valuable from nothing, and an entrepreneur is someone who has a high understanding and the ability to find opportunities and can create value from nothing by cultivating his thoughts and ideas and turning them into a new product or service. The famous German sociologist Max Weber considers the spirit of entrepreneurship as an important factor in describing and explaining the formation of industrial civilization and capitalism in the West.

In today's world, thinking, innovation, entrepreneurship and its use in organizations are inevitable. As the birth and death of organizations depends on the vision, insights and abilities of the founders, their growth and survival depends on factors such as the ability, creativity and innovation of their human resources. If the planners, decision-makers and employees of the organization are entrepreneurs, they understand the economic opportunities better and are able to use the available resources for innovation and thus grow quickly and remain in the competition scene. In fact, entrepreneurship can happen when one or a group of people start an economic activity, or it can happen within an active organization. This type of entrepreneurship is called organizational entrepreneurship. Since organizational entrepreneurship can lead to technological change and productivity growth and increase the organization's ability to use its potential resources, the use of mechanisms that lead to its increase is of great importance. In the current era, knowledge is considered as a valuable and strategic resource as well as an asset, and providing products and services with appropriate quality is difficult and sometimes impossible without proper management and use of this valuable capital.Some thinkers believe that knowledge creates a basis for innovation and economic status, and this itself leads to the style of competitive advantage. It must be accepted that the age of dominance of entrepreneurial spirit has arrived. In the highly competitive global markets, the classic big capitalism will gradually lose its power and only those in the international arena will enter the economic life – The community will continue to have an entrepreneurial spirit. Therefore, in this new competitive arena, a society that has educated people who can collect production resources with creativity and dynamism and engage in business and be entrepreneurs with their creative efforts is the leader in this new competitive arena. Nowadays people  They must accept that their philosophy of life has changed and being alive no longer means reaching a state of continuous profitability and they must look for competition and its means, because today few companies in this field do business in a traditional way and far from the new rules of the game, and in order to be able to keep up with the competitors or perhaps be able to surpass them one step with difficulty and with great skill, they must be completely familiar with the rules of the game so that maybe one day they can consider themselves a new rule. Therefore, mastering technologies and new tools in business should be considered an inevitable requirement and necessity. (Bagheri, 2010) And the tools of the organization are no longer material and physical resources. Rather, intellectual capital and intellectual power and management   knowledge is the dominant and dominant power in the fields of global competition. It helps that knowledge can be used in appropriate decisions and in this way leads to competitive acquisition for people and ultimately increases the level of entrepreneurship significantly. Knowledge management helps the organization in gaining, understanding and insight from its experience. Specific knowledge management activities help the organization focus on acquiring, storing, and applying knowledge for issues such as problem solving, dynamic learning, strategic planning, and decision making. which ultimately leads to entrepreneurship. (Bagheri, 2009)

People's knowledge and experience together lead to the development of  They become entrepreneurs. Knowledge management through better management of ideas, increasing the ability and productivity of employees and effective leadership of knowledge can lead to entrepreneurship in people. Knowledge management through the injection of information and knowledge in organizations helps entrepreneurship in the process of decision-making, planning, and goal setting. (Tahiri, 2019)

Statement of the research problem

Today, organizations in our country do not take a serious view of the category of entrepreneurship and there is not enough support for entrepreneurs. However, today's organizations operate in a dynamic, ambiguous and changing environment, and these changes are so many that they have no choice but to adapt and respond to these changes. Therefore, guaranteeing and continuing the life and survival of organizations requires finding new solutions and methods with problems that depend on innovation to create new products, processes and methods. In most organizations, the ability of employees is not used. In other words, people have the ability to express creativity, initiative, innovation and more activities, but in the organizational environment, for some reasons, these capabilities are not used optimally. For this reason and according to knowledge management capabilities such as knowledge creation, knowledge storage and maintenance, knowledge transfer and application, it is possible to move towards entrepreneurship and especially organizational entrepreneurship. Knowledge management by developing and promoting knowledge and focusing on the non-physical assets of the organization (experiences and knowledge of employees) provides conditions for the emergence of entrepreneurial behavior and causes the creation of entrepreneurial organizations, which set of actions has a direct impact on the economic, social and cultural growth and development of the organization.