The Effect of Knowledge Management on the Ffinancial Performance of an Organization with regard to the Mediating Role of Innovation and Organizational Intelligence

he main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of knowledge management on the financial performance of an organization with regard to the mediating role of innovation and organizational intelligence. The purpose of this study was applied research based on survey data collection method and descriptive-correlational research method. The statistical population of this study consisted of thirty-one managers of banks active in the banking industry. Due to the low volume of the statistical population, the statistical sample was considered equal to the number of the statistical population. Library and field research (questionnaire) were used to collect the research data. In this study, structural equation modeling method was used to analyze the collected data and test the research hypotheses in PLS software. The hypotheses test results showed that knowledge management has a positive and significant effect on the financial performance of the organization, which directly accounts for 0.645 of the changes related to the financial performance of the organization. The research findings also showed that innovation and organizational intelligence have a positive impact on the financial performance of the organization and explain 0.718 and 0.475 of the changes related to the variables of financial performance of the organization respectively. The Sobel-Waff test showed that 95% confidence level of knowledge management through the mediating variables of innovation and organizational intelligence had a positive and significant effect on the financial performance of the organization.