Knowledge Stock, Research Resource, and Knowledge Creation:he Moderating Effects of Organizational Characteristics and Institutional Constraint

Abstract

Knowledge is regarded as a primary source underlying new value creation and competitive advantage. Therefore, knowledge creation is more and more important for firms and for individuals. Since knowledge is viewed as residing within the individual and all organizational learning takes place inside human heads, knowledge creation of individuals is an important issue and deserves further investigate.he purpose of this research is to offer an empirical study that to find the relationship between knowledge stock and knowledge creation. Besides, the study also examines knowledge creation related to organizational characteristics, which include organizational size and type, and institutional constraint of assistant professorship. The study clarifies the relationship between research resource and knowledge creation and testifies the moderating effects of organizational characteristics and institutional constraint as well.he results show that the relationship between knowledge stock and knowledge creation is more than linear as assumed but inversed U-shaped, which means that there would be an optimal degree of knowledge stock for knowledge creation. Organizational characteristics are negative moderators that both organizational size and type modestly moderate the relationship. Moreover, the institutional constraint of assistant professorship negatively moderates the relationship between knowledge stock and knowledge creation modestly. For research resource, there is a positive relation between research resource and knowledge creation. Organizational characteristics and institutional constraint negatively moderate the relationship between research resource and knowledge creation as well. The results provide empirical evidences of knowledge creation from individual perspective, and it is recommended that knowledge creation could not only be affected by factors at organizational level but also at institution level. Another implication for those who try hard to stimulate knowledge creation is that it is inevitable to provide enough resource for knowledge creation.