Knowledge Management and Sustainable Innovation of Nigerian Breweries Plc Aba, Abia State

Abstract

This study examined knowledge management and sustainable innovation of Nigerian Breweries Plc Aba, Abia State. The competitive and dynamic nature of environment in which our organizations operate and its consequent impact made this investigation necessary. The objectives of the study were to; ascertain the nature of relationship between explicit knowledge and change in operational processes and determine the nature of relationship between implicit knowledge and development of novel product. A survey design approach was adopted for the study, the population of the study was 718 and Taro Yemane formula was used to derive 256 as the sample of the study. Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient was employed in testing of the hypotheses and the result revealed that, there was a positive and moderate relationship between explicit knowledge and change in operational processes and implicit knowledge had a positive and strong relationship with development of novel product. Based on the findings, the study concluded that knowledge management positively influence sustainable innovation in an organization. It was recommended among others that organizations that want to develop novel product need to rely on their intuition, experience and in addition to innovative technology in other to create or develop a new product.