Hanieh Zare; Saeideh Ebrahimi; Abdolrasool Jowkar
Abstract
Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate the role of knowledge management components in corporate entrepreneurship of information science specialists, employed in shiraz university libraries.Methodology: The used tools of the study include KM questionnaire of Nayyer (1390) and the CE questionnaire ...
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Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate the role of knowledge management components in corporate entrepreneurship of information science specialists, employed in shiraz university libraries.Methodology: The used tools of the study include KM questionnaire of Nayyer (1390) and the CE questionnaire of Hooman (1381). Stability alpha coefficient of Cronbach was used to measure internal parallelism of KM and CE questionnaires, which gained 0/89 and 0/92, respectively. The studied society includes the librarians, employed in shiraz university libraries (87 people).Findings: Results indicated, among the components of KM, components "people", "process" and "culture" had a significant and positive relationship with corporate entrepreneurship, but between the component of the "Technology" with corporate entrepreneurship, there was no significant relationship. Conclusions: Libraries need to implement knowledge management and utilization of its intellectual capital, In creating entrepreneurship in the over time that, depends on the knowledge exchange process. In this way the most important factor of corporate entrepreneurship achievement effective management of knowledge in the organization. In other words, knowledge management in libraries could be considered as the bedrock of corporate entrepreneurship.