Knowledge acquisition, knowledge management strategy and innovation: An empirical study of Vietnamese firms

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Figure 1. Knowledge acquisition practices, knowledge management strategy, and innovation.

Table 1. Exploratory factor analysis

	Component
	1	2	3	4
Innovation results 1	0.72
Innovation results 2	0.72
Innovation results 3	0.79
Innovation results 4	0.74
Innovation results 5	0.81
Innovation results 6	0.75
Innovation results 7	0.77
Innovation results 8	0.76
Codification strategy 1		0.77
Codification strategy 2		0.81
Codification strategy 3		0.60
Codification strategy 4		0.82
Personalization strategy 1			0.57
Personalization strategy 2			0.63
Personalization strategy 3			0.71
Personalization strategy 4			0.64
Knowledge acquisition 1				0.81
Knowledge acquisition 2				0.75
Knowledge acquisition 3				0.74
Knowledge acquisition 4				0.64
Knowledge acquisition 5				0.65

Notes: Only loadings > 0.50 are shown. KMO = 0.929, Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity = 2363.426, Significance = 0.000.

Table 2. Means, standard deviations and correlations

	Mean	SD	1	2	3	4	5
Knowledge acquisition	4.90	1.26	1
Codification strategy	5.06	1.31	0.60**	1
Personalisation strategy	5.26	1.31	0.65**	0.69**	1
Innovation Results	5.32	1.16	0.65**	0.50**	0.64**	1
Firm age	3.85	1.24	−0.07	0.03	−0.06	−0.22*	1
Firm size	2.84	1.05	−0.03	0.09	0.01	0.01	0.46**

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.

Table 3. Results of regression analysis for knowledge acquisition practices, knowledge management strategy, and innovation

Variables	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
(Constant)
Firm age	−0.28***	−0.17***	−0.17**	−0.16
Firm size	0.18*	0.15**	0.13*	0.11
Knowledge acquisition		0.52***	0.30***	0.43
Codification strategy			0.06	1.83
Personalization strategy			.35***	−.85
Codification X Knowledge acquisition				−1.46**
Personalization X Knowledge acquisition				1.06
F	3.88**	36.51***	33.07***	23.29***
R^2	0.07	0.57	0.65	0.69
Adjusted R^2	0.05	0.56	0.63	0.66

* p < 0.1; ** p < 0.05; *** p < 0.01