What is the paper about?

This paper will empirically examine the link between knowledge management and innovation and firm performance. This paper is important because it argues that knowledge takes on a number of roles: first, knowledge is, in itself, both a tangible and intangible resource; second, having access to knowledge supports any decision making about resources; third, a capability in knowledge management enables those within a firm to leverage the most service from knowledge and other resources; and fourth, effective knowledge management makes contributes to innovation and performance.in order to be innovative, having knowledge is as important as what is done with that knowledge. Also the paper provides evidence of the importance of effective knowledge management.

Please describe the process of editing and coding in the article.

Coding – the brightest example of using strategy of coding is situated on pages 7-12, where all results of research are placed in table form. As a codes, symbols are used: KA for variable “knowledge acquisition”, KD for variable “knowledge dissemination” and KR for variable “responsiveness to knowledge”. It is the first division by cades for variables. The next step is applied to factors which are numbered from 1 to 5/6 depends of the number of factors for each variable. And where factors appears, letter F with interlinear number also shows up.

As for editing, process was the following: After identifying a total of 1,743 organizations with 50 or more employees and representing a cross section of industries. A pre-notification letter was sent to potential respondents explaining the purpose of the research and announcing the imminent arrival of the survey. Respondents were also promised a report-card summary of the knowledge management profile of their organization as an incentive to complete the survey. Two weeks later, a