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Entrepreneurship, knowledge integration capability, and firm performance: An empirical study

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From the knowledge-based view, an organization is considered an entity that integrates and distributes knowledge to produce products and services. Knowledge is acknowledged as a sustainable basis of competitive advantage that many organizations possess. Entrepreneurial activity also has been viewed as an essential feature for organizations to survive and prosper in today’s turbulent environment. In this study, we explore the effect of entrepreneurship on organizational performance through knowledge integration capability. Our research model depicts the firm as a knowledge integration institution that produces its offerings through specialized knowledge integration capability that consists of learning culture, knowledge management process, and information technology capability. The results show a strong support for the relationship between entrepreneurship and knowledge integration capability. We also found that the effect of entrepreneurial activities on firm performance was mediated by knowledge integration capability.

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The research of the first author was supported by World Class University program funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology thought the National Research Foundation of Korea (R31-20002)

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  1. Service Systems Management and Engineering Department, School of Business, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, 121-742

    Yong Jin Kim

  2. Department of Information Systems & Technologies, Weber State University, Layton, UT, 84041, USA

    Seokwoo Song

  3. Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lancing, MI, 48824, USA

    V. Sambamurthy

  4. Head of Olleh TV BU, Korea Telecommunication, Seoul, Korea

    Young Lyoul Lee

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Kim, Y.J., Song, S., Sambamurthy, V. et al. Entrepreneurship, knowledge integration capability, and firm performance: An empirical study. Inf Syst Front 14, 1047–1060 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-011-9331-z

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