Thanh Dung, N: What is the Effect of Knowledge Management?

Today the business environment is more severely competitive than in the past. Knowledge in an organization is one of the most important keys to gain competitive advantage in the global dynamic and complex business environment. There are many foreign invested companies as Taiwanese, Koreans, Japanese, and Singaporean as well as Vietnamese companies which are doing business in Vietnam. Sharing knowledge should be considered as one core competency of knowledge management in the companies, which is evaluated as an important key to success. It is important that knowledge sharing be integrated into a business strategy to reach goals such as competitiveness, effectiveness and performance. The empirical results suggest that investigation of the relationship among interpersonal trust, organizational support, and communication climate, knowledge sharing and individual performance are significant validated. Finally, the results reveal that the demographic characteristics influences on the five research constructs in the difference type of companies in Vietnam.