Organizational culture and knowledge creation capability

Purpose - Organizational culture comprises a firm's climate that informally and tacitly defines how the firm develops and uses knowledge, thus it has a significant effect on knowledge creation capability The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on knowledge creation capability Design/methodology/approach - The data of 212 Chinese firms collected through face-to-face interview is used to empirically test the hypotheses. Findings - This study finds that organizational culture plays a critical role in knowledge creation capability Specially collectivism has a positive impact on knowledge creation capability, while power distance and uncertainty avoidance have negative effects. Originality/value - This study not only contributes to knowledge management research by identifying a key antecedent of knowledge creation capability - organizational culture - but also is of importance to organizational culture literature by demonstrating the proper organizational culture for knowledge creation capability