Mutual Relationship Between Supply Chain, Business Strategy, and Knowledge Management in Supply Chain

Abstract

The goal of this study is to present a multidimensional structure for relationship between supply chain (SC) strategies, business strategies, and knowledge management (KM) strategies with knowledge sharing in SC of the automotive industry of Iran. This is an applied research and has done as a survey, correlation, and cause-effect research. In this research, confirmative factor analysis, correlation test, co-linearity test, and path analysis were used. The chapter tries to describe quantitatively all the relations in multidimensional structure. Effective knowledge sharing in SC is influenced by the hierarchy of strategies. Thus, SC strategies influence the business strategies, business strategies affect knowledge strategies, and knowledge strategies influence the effective and systematic knowledge sharing in the SC. Therefore, knowledge sharing is most of all influenced by KM strategies but is indirectly influenced by business and SC strategies.