Relating Knowledge Management And Growth Performance With Organization Learning As Mediator: A Conceptual Approach

A B S T R A C T Construction business is facing multifaceted challenges in today’s turbulent environment which require the players to plan appropriate strategies in order to remain relevance, competence and growth in this ever challenging industry. Growth performance of companies is commonly understood as business success and most companies are planning to enhance their growth performance. Knowledge is acknowledged as a valuable resource for companies to maintain competitiveness in a turbulent business environment. However, due to lack of systematic knowledge organization, companies are not realizing and optimizing what they already know. For that reason, knowledge management is introduced to assist an organization managing the knowledge systematically and effectively. The implementation of knowledge management can offer higher impacts on the growth performance when they take into consideration the organizational learning in their strategic plan. This paper reviews the concepts of knowledge management, growth performance and organizational learning and tries to establish a relationship between knowledge management and growth performance along with the role of organizational learning as a mediator. The framework relating knowledge management and growth performance with organizational learning plays a mediating role will be established and recommended for future study in the construction industry.