Title: Organisational culture as a stimulant to knowledge management practices: an empirical analysis on Indian real estate companies

Authors: Arpana Kumari; Teena Saharan

Addresses: Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India ' Doon Business School, Dehradun, India

Abstract: The real estate sector is believed in general, adds efficiency into a country's growth and can aim to disrupt the knowledge management practices to keep abreast of latest trends and better serve the interest of it's stakeholder. However, the prevalent culture of shared vision, trust, motivation, values, and mutual cooperation in the organisation can play a noteworthy role in connecting dots between people and knowledge and unleashing the power of knowledge. This paper examined the influence of organisational culture in promoting knowledge management practices in 136 Indian real estate firms in Delhi and the National Capital Region of India. The result facilitated the knowledge management practices adopted by these companies such as knowledge recording, organisational encouragement, mentoring, interaction platforms and top management support. Further, the role of organisational culture consisting of two independent variables - motivation and knowledge sharing culture on knowledge management practices was tested.

Keywords: knowledge sharing; motivation; knowledge management practices; KMPs; values; real estate; organisational culture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2021.118563

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2021 Vol.14 No.4, pp.360 - 384

Received: 05 Jan 2021
Accepted: 22 Apr 2021
Published online: 28 Oct 2021 *

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