Conditions of knowledge management, innovation capability and firm performance. An explicative model

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to construct an explanatory model of the relationship

between the conditions of knowledge management and innovation

capability and its effect on firm performance. All this, from the combination

of both internal conditions (strategic purpose, decision making, information

and communication technologies and behavioural environment) and

external conditions (competitive environment), which guide the process of

development and renewal of new capabilities that involve knowledge acquisition,

appropriation and the generation of results. It discusses the concept

of innovation capability and proposes a model that integrates the necessary

conditions for the evolution of knowledge within the firm and its influence

on innovation capability.