Pengaruh Implementasi Knowledge Management Terhadap Kinerja Organisasi Melalui Inovasi Sebagai Variabel Intervening (Studi Kasus Pada UMKM Industri Kreatif Digital di Kota Semarang)

Abstract

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology currently is creating and developing
new program which is called A Movement of 1000 Digital Startups in Indonesia. Semarang, as one of
capital cities in Indonesia is also developing its digital creative industry. To develop it, government of
Semarang city needs valid data about innovations and performances in digital creative industry. To
create innovation dan develop it, one of the ways is to implementing knowledge management, its stages
form knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, and knowledge implementing. This research aims to
understand how knowledge management impelementation influencing organizational performance
through innovation in digital creative industries in Semarang partially and simultaneously. The data
used is primary data, by giving questionnaire to the leaders of MSME’s enterprises, which is 33
respondents, determined by total sampling technique because micro, small, and medium’s enterprises of
digital creative insdustry in Semarang is having a very little amount.
The result of this research is implementation of knowledge management is influencing
innovation in large amount, but in organizational performance, it is influencing in few amount. Besides,
innovation is not influencing organizational performance, therefore with innovation as intervening
variable cause there is no influence of knowledge management implementation on organizational
performance in Semarang, it is becaused digital creative industries in Semarang city is still yet mature
and still have a priority in innovation, but they don’t have long-term goals to develop their
organizational performance.