The mediating effect of corporate entrepreneurship between knowledge management and banker's performance in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Sa’atar, Shiza, Mahmood, Rosli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Society for Business Research Promotion 2015
• Subjects: HB Economic Theory
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/16239/1/117.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/16239/; http://www.ajbms.org/journal_abstract.php?c_id=282

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of corporate entrepreneurship on the relationships between knowledge management and banker’s performance.This study was motivated by the inconsistent findings in the contemporary literature regarding the relationships between knowledge management and organization performance. Due to these inconsistencies, a new research stream emerged which suggests investigating the effect of corporate entrepreneurship that may better explain the nature of the link.In the relevant literature, many theories have emphasized the necessity to establish the fit between organizations and performance as the first and key success factor.Studies have acknowledged importance of corporate entrepreneurship as a critical variable for performance, this study integrated resource based theory to study the effect of corporate entrepreneurship on banker’s performance.This study followed a rigorous process to establish the construct validity of the measure by employing CFA using SPSS statistical software packages.The findings of this study revealed that knowledge management, were significant predictors of banker’s performance. This study, however, supported the premises of resource-based theory confirming the importance of supportive corporate entrepreneurship for any successful bank branch managers.These findings, therefore, strongly suggested that supportive corporate entrepreneurship should be developed in prior to banker’s performance.