The Role of Knowledge Management Infrastructure and Process in Agile Textile Industry of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 M.A. Yazd University.

2 Assistant Professor, Yazd University.

Abstract

Knowledge as the most competitive aspect of that organization enables the organization to be productive and free from competitive products and services. One of the foundations of increasing knowledge management productivity is effective agility. The high volume of literature development in the field of knowledge management and organizational agility illustrates the importance of these two categories. In this paper, we examine the form of convergence of the two in that their dimensions are strongly correlated and argue that organizational agility is achieved when knowledge management, in every respect, is in equilibrium. be . Yazd textile companies were selected as the study and their agility and knowledge management status was assessed using a questionnaire. This article describes the findings of this study.

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