The Nature of Knowledge Creation in Indian Knowledge Creating Companies

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to figure out the nature and prevalence of Knowledge Creation in the six selected Knowledge Organizations and how do they vary across the public and private sector organizations as well as on the sectoral lines and in the perception of different genders from a random sample of 204 Knowledge Workers. The Knowledge Creation variable has been culled out of the data collected through the questionnaire given by Maier and Moseley (2003). The collected data has been further analyzed using SPSS for the purpose of this research paper. Other than descriptive analysis, the multiple regression analysis with dummy variables was used to differentiate among sectors and genders. All Organizations are moderately effective in Knowledge Creation. Private Sector Knowledge Organizations are significantly better in knowledge creation than Public Sector Knowledge Organizations. The Knowledge Creation is more effective in the Knowledge Creating Companies of the IT sector and significantly better than the Knowledge Organizations belonging to the Infrastructure Sector. There is no distinction in the Knowledge Creation of Power sector Knowledge-Creating Company and the Companies belonging to the Infrastructure sector. Both male and female Knowledge Workers get involved in the Knowledge Creation in the same manner and there is no distinction between them. More needs to be done in the Knowledge Creating Companies of the infrastructure sector including the power sector about improving the Knowledge Creation. They could be easily brought to the same level of IT sector Knowledge Creating Companies. There is still a lot of headroom for the improvement in the Knowledge Creation for all the organization including IT sector Knowledge Creating Companies. There are a few literature and empirical research papers on the Knowledge Creation in the Indian context. This gap is being filled by this empirical study about the Knowledge Creating Companies in India and their variation across gender and different sectors of the economy in India.

Keywords: Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Organization, Public sector, Private sector, Knowledge Worker