MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATION LEARNING BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND GROWTH PERFORMANCE IN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES: A FRAMEWORK

Contemporary construction businesses are facing multifaceted challenges in today's highly competitive environment which require them to plan right strategies in order to remain relevance and grow in the industry. Growth performance of the companies is often understood as business success and most companies are planning to improve their growth performance. Knowledge is recognized as a valuable resource for companies to sustain 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 organization managing the knowledge systematically and effectively. The implementation of knowledge management can offer higher impacts on the organizations' 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 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 construction.