TY  - JOUR
T1  - Factors Affecting Knowledge Management System and Effective Decision
Making among Manufacturing SMEs in East Coast Malaysia
AU - Mohamad Razali, Nurshahida Binti AU - Bt Che Nawi, Noorshella AU - Bin Zakaria, Mohd Nazri AU - Mamun, Abdullah Al 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 12
IS  - 5
SP  - 396
EP  - 407
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2018.396.407
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2018.396.407
KW  - effective decision making
KW  -Knowledge management system
KW  -manufacturing SMEs
KW  -study adopts
KW  -cross-sectional design
KW  -knowledge dissemination
AB  - In today’s competitive global business environment, SME’s sustainability largely depends on their effective decision making capacity. This study examines the effect of Tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, knowledge acquisition, knowledge dissemination and knowledge utilization on knowledge mnagement sstem (kms) and the effect of kms on effective decision-making among the manufacturing SMEs in East Coast Malaysia. This study adopts the cross-sectional design and quantitative methods and collects data from 141 randomly selected SMEs from Kelantan, Pahang and Terengganu States. Findings of this study reveal that tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, knowledge dissemination and knowledge utilization have a significant positive effect on KMS and KMS has a significant positive effect on effective decision making among the manufacturing SMEs in East Coast Malaysia. Manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia should therefore focus on improving the knowledge management system for effective decision-making.
ER  -