Title:
ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND ITS EFFECT ON INNOVATION CAPABILITY IN THE OPERATION DEPARTMENT OF PUSRI-III PLANT PUPUK SRIWIDJAJA PALEMBANG

Authors:
Ibrahim , Agustina Hanafi and Bambang Bemby Soebyakto ,Indonesia

Abstract:
This study aims to analyze the influence between factors of knowledge management (such as individual factors (knowledge self-efficacy), organizational factors (top management support) and technological factors (Information and Communication Technology- ICT Use) on knowledge sharing processes whether more leads to superior firm innovation capability in the Operation Department of Pusri-III Plant of Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang. The research is based on a survey of 123 employees from the Operations Department of Pusri-III Plant Pusri Palembang. No probability sampling is used in sampling methods and data analysis using the Partial Least Square (PLS) are employed in this study. The results of this study shows that knowledge management factors consisting of individual factors (knowledge self-efficacy), organizational factors (top management support) and technological factors (Information and Communication Technology-ICT Use) significantly affect both the knowledge donating and knowledge collecting. The result of this study nevertheless shows that in the organizational factors (top management support) does not significantly affect to the knowledge collecting. And in the technological factors (ICT Use) does not significantly affect to knowledge donating. Furthermore, the result shows that both knowledge donating and knowledge collecting significantly affect the innovation capability of the studied in the Operations Department of Pusri-III Plant Pusri in Palembang.