Knowledge Management Practices and Organizational Effectiveness : Empirical Evidence from Banks of an Underdeveloped Country

Knowledge management literature exhibits that to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors int he modern economy, an organization must be able to generate new knowledge by using its knowledge base resources. This article investigates the relationship between knowledge management practices (Acquisition, Conversion, Application and Protection) and organizational effectiveness in commercial banks operating in Bangladesh. A knowledge management process model is developed from the previous literature and tested. Interestingly. the result indicates that knowledge management practices have significant influence over organizational effectiveness