Assessing Knowledge Creation and the Effects of Institutional Culture on it (the

• Main Authors: Seyed Mohsen Allameh, Leila Moghtadaie
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: University of Isfahan 2010-10-01
• Series: جامعه شناسی کاربردی
• Subjects: Keywords: institutional culture; knowledge creation; socialization; externalization; combination
• Online Access: http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/jas/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1

AbstractToday, one of the most important functions of universities is to create knowledge in order to fulfill the needsof the society and promote the status of knowledge and the quality of instruction through it. Generally, it canbe said that intellectuality is the most important and the most valuable property of educational centers suchas universities and is the main key to development. Naturally, for the materialization of knowledge creationin universities as one the most important issues of the third millennium, there are different factors at workand among these factors, institutional culture and its effects on knowledge creation have been investigated inthis study. The population of this study included all the faculty members of the University of Isfahan (476cases) of whom 142 cases were selected based on Cochran formula. A questionnaire was used for datacollection and the method employed in this study was survey. For analyzing data and testing the hypotheses,both descriptive statistics (Percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics(Pearson r and regression) were used. The findings reveal that institutional culture has effects on the amountof knowledge creation of the faculty members and among the variables, "orientation towards socialbehavior" which is one of the dimensions of institutional culture, has had the most effects on knowledgecreation. Accordingly, revised coefficient of determination reveals that 20% of the variance of the dependentvariable (knowledge creation) has been due to variables functioning on regression model. The rest of thevariance is due to other variables not investigated in this study.