Towards a New Framework Linking Knowledge Management Systems and Organizational Agility : An Empirical Study

The amount of data has exploded over the last ten years. Data is captured and shared from personal
devices, transactional operations, sensors, social media and other sources. Firms should, thus, be able to
explore the new opportunities and rapidly seize them by developing the corresponding capabilities. In our
work, we focus on two emerging dynamic capabilities: Absorptive capacity and organizational agility. We
propose a new theoretical Framework based on the previous literature linking the use of knowledge
management systems and firm’s organizational agility by highlighting the mediating role of firm’s
absorptive capacity. In addition, we carried out an empirical study based on a survey to support and
validate the proposed Framework. The main findings of this study are presented.