Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of environmental characteristics, business partnership relationship, knowledge complementarity, organizational characteristics on knowledge management practices and innovation performance.

Design/methodology/approach

The research used primary data, i.e. data obtained directly from the distribution of questionnaires to respondents, namely, the company’s managers/leaders/directors in the companies that became the research sample. Data were collected by sending questionnaires either by mail or email to the respondents. To examine the effect of environmental characteristics, business partnership relationship, knowledge complementarity and organizational characteristics on knowledge management practices and innovation performance.

Findings

Environmental characteristics, business partnership relationship, knowledge complementarity and organizational characteristics partially have a significant effect on knowledge management practices. Environmental characteristics and business partnership relationship partially have a significant effect on innovation performance, while knowledge complementarity and organizational characteristics have no significant effect. For other constructs, knowledge management practices are able to be a moderator variable, which can relate these constructs with innovation performance.

Originality/value

The research using the diffusion of innovation paradigm, the combination of market-based and knowledge-based paradigms is expected to fill the previous research gap and become the first uniqueness and originality, as well as characteristic of this research. The second originality is this research examines the role of the knowledge management practice variable as the moderator variable. Then, the third originality is this research investigates the relationship between business partner relationship and innovation performance. These three originalities are still rarely studied in previous studies, so this research will further complement, expand the study, especially in the knowledge management, innovation performance area.

中文翻译：

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贸易伙伴关系和知识互补对创新绩效的影响

目的

本文的目的是考察环境特征、商业伙伴关系、知识互补性、组织特征对知识管理实践和创新绩效的影响。

设计/方法/方法

该研究使用原始数据，即直接从向受访者分发问卷中获得的数据，即成为研究样本的公司的经理/领导/董事。通过邮寄或电子邮件向受访者发送调查问卷来收集数据。考察环境特征、商业伙伴关系、知识互补性和组织特征对知识管理实践和创新绩效的影响。

发现

环境特征、商业伙伴关系、知识互补性和组织特征对知识管理实践有部分显着影响。环境特征和商业伙伴关系对创新绩效有部分显着影响，而知识互补性和组织特征没有显着影响。对于其他结构，知识管理实践能够成为一个调节变量，可以将这些结构与创新绩效联系起来。

原创性/价值

运用创新范式扩散、市场范式与知识范式相结合的研究，有望填补以往研究的空白，成为本研究的第一个独特性和独创性，也是本研究的特色。第二个独创性是本研究考察了知识管理实践变量作为调节变量的作用。然后，第三个独创性是本研究调查了商业伙伴关系与创新绩效之间的关系。这三个原创性在以往的研究中仍然很少有研究，因此本研究将进一步补充、扩展研究，特别是在知识管理、创新绩效领域。