Study the Effect of Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Sharing on Organizational Innovation of Software Companies

Abstract

The overall goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of intellectual capital and knowledge sharing on organizational innovation of software companies within the structural equation models. Accordingly, the necessary data were gathered by using questionnaires of 30 software companies established in Tehran, who were selected by the cluster sampling method. After confirming the reliability and validity of tools, by using the Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis, data obtained with structural equation modeling and LISREL software were analyzed. Findings suggest that intellectual capital has a positive and significant impact on knowledge sharing (0.27= β) and organizational innovation (0.48= β). In addition, the findings showed that knowledge sharing with a coefficient equal to 0.30has a positive impact on organizational innovation. On the other hand, the findings indicate that, knowledge sharing between intellectual capital and organizational innovation had a mediating role and the intellectual capital has a direct impact on innovation through knowledge sharing and has an indirect impact on organizational innovation in the Software companies of research population