Research on the Relationship between Knowledge Management Infrastructure, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management Performance

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of KM infrastructure on knowledge sharing and KM performance. Knowledge sharing is the center of KM, so we take knowledge sharing as a mediator variable in the impact of KM infrastructure on KM performance. Based on the survey of enterprises from IT and software industry in Pearl River Delta, this paper examined the relationship between KM infrastructure, knowledge sharing and KM performance. The results revealed that KM infrastructure positively and significantly influenced the knowledge sharing, and knowledge sharing was an important mediator between KM infrastructures and KM performance.