The investigation of knowledge leadership in innovation performance of companies

Knowledge leadership is essential for organizations focused on intensive technology in order to improvement of innovation performance through the effective development and implementation of performance of knowledge management. Knowledge leadership as a driving force for knowledge management measures that are indirectly linked with innovation performance. In fact, the more leadership is broader, more developed knowledge management practices, which in turn affects the performance of innovation. According to to the increasing demand for knowledge and activities to integrate knowledge, innovation can promote exchange and interaction between people, thus leading to joint activities of knowledge management and innovation performance.


INTRODUCTION
International organizations based on the principles of knowledge management, development and implementation its plan to improve the effectiveness of business processes, increase productivity and quality of their service and find solutions and new products for their customers. In this regard, another important factor is leadership style and behavior that has a significant impact on the direction and effectiveness of knowledge management in organizations (Mohamed & Nguyan, 2011). Companies can use knowledge leadership to develop knowledge management practices and to improve the willingness of employees in their innovation performance. Managers should establish the ideal contextual conditions to propel and optimize the organization's use of knowledge management practices and initiatives through the design of tools such as human resource management practices (Lin, 2011).
Knowledge leadership is essential for technology-oriented organizations. It is an approach that is rapidly developing and attention to improve the effectiveness of processes, along with continuous innovation. Needing to knowledge leadership, derives from the fact that the knowledge practices on the innovation performance and access to sustainable competitive advantage is considered an important act. Indeed, leadership is as an essential condition for the development and knowledge management practices to encourage innovation objectives focuses on technologyintensive companies. In this regard, knowledge leadership is as a leadership issues and companies are considered successful that give more value (Donate and de Pablo, 2014).
Innovation performance is combination of overall success of the organization in order to modernize and improve the result of the efforts made and the implementation of various aspects of innovation in the organization. In the literature, innovation performance is one of the most important drivers of other functional aspects of the organization regarding to the continuous efforts to improve, renew, exploration, learning from mistakes, compromise the competitive environment to quickly (Gunday et al., 2011). This concept can be achieved through exploratory innovation by reform of existing knowledge and skills development, customer needs and occur respond to environmental conditions (Zhou & Wu, 2010). Innovation performance help to new product and process in organizations and considered as a competitive advantage (Xu & Li, 2009). It is critical for companies to remain competitive and successful way to compete with market changes. The higher performance of enterprise innovation activities be related. Successful innovation can help companies achieve greater profits (Martinez, 2014). Innovation performance is obtained for product development and new manufacturing processes or improving existing processes (Moradi et al., 2013). Adopting new behavior and new idea or innovation to be taken in order to function (Tamay -Torres et al., 2010). Innovation performance is will often appear with the number of achievements, records and reports new projects that take part in routine work is claimed, will be displayed. Also, the quality of new products and new processes with rival represents the company's innovation practice (Hung, 2011). Companies quickly adapt to changes made possible through innovation performance created and are protected against environmental instability with regard to performance, profit increased their market participation (Zehir et al., 2012). Given the importance of weakness in innovation performance of manufacturing and commercial companies can be a unwillingness introduction of new products or services and the introduction of new process, not having respond quickly to introduce new competitive process, lack of adequate training for new service innovation and reduce the number of products offered in the market ( Kazazi & Scholl, 2013).
Knowledge leadership is defined as any attitude or action-joint or individual, observed or imputed-that prompts new and important knowledge to be created, shared, and utilized in ways that bring a shift in thinking and collective outcomes. Knowledge leadership behavior and innovation performance regarding to knowledge management practices is necessary for technology intensive organizations in order to improvement of innovation performance through development and implementation of knowledge management practices. Knowledge-oriented leadership as a driving force for knowledge management measures that are indirectly linked with innovation performance. In fact, the leadership is broader knowledgebased company, has developed knowledge management practices, which in turn affects the performance of innovation.

Innovation performance
The process of innovation performance in the application of new or improved services and delivery of products or technology to increase efficiency is concerned and in terms of the introduction of new or significantly improved process will be measured. Innovation performance according to the introduction of new methods or improve existing methods of how to work, how to organize and establish the effectiveness and efficiency of defined channel foreign cooperation to increase the company's internal operations. According to the introduction of new or improved organizational innovation performance in job training or internal knowledge sharing, flexible work, supply management or the management of production, output specific tasks and relationships with suppliers, customers or government measured. Marketing innovation performance is referred to introduce new or improved methods that help to the effectiveness of the service or cognition customers in terms of sales and marketing (Cho et al., 2011). Today, companies that focus their innovation performance, market share and profits to significantly increase (Moradi et al., 2013).

KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP
Knowledge leadership rather than the position of the association focused, innovative learning processes and of the influence of subjective knowledge exchange, implicit and explicit support over time (Peet, 2012). Knowledge leadership is defined as the process by which individual members of other groups supporting the learning cycle needed to achieve the goals of a group or organization. Knowledge leadership may develop mechanisms to respond and control the sharing of knowledge with customers to help. Knowledge-oriented leadership is defined as the process by which individual members of other groups supporting the learning cycle needed to achieve the goals of a group or organization. Leadership development mechanism for accountability and control possible knowledge sharing with customers help (Yang et al, 2014). The emergence of knowledge led to conflicts parametric range can be aligned field. The term knowledge management, has been established in the past two decades. The researchers acknowledged that the concept of a knowledgeoriented leader in the true sense is not very well known. This type of leadership as a new paradigm for the entire field of knowledge management has been proposed. In most cases, it can be argued as an alternative view to managing and understanding until the new base for general principles (Huvila, 2014).

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
According to the findings, it can be said as the impact of knowledge on innovation performance was confirmed, managers of companies, with a certain type of knowledge-oriented leadership for development and improvement of technology regarding to R&D activities and convenient use of technology help innovation performance. Company's investment can effect on R&D activities and experienced unit in order to development and improvement of technology.. Also, access to relevant information and key knowledge and use of scientific knowledge used and the integration of different groups can lead to innovation performance. Managers by organizing knowledge and its application and use in different units from offer customers, vendors can play an important role in the application of knowledge. According to the analysis of the results showed that knowledge-oriented leadership has effect on knowledge creation. Because of weaknesses in the management of knowledge and innovation, leadership duties conform at issue in the assessment and external knowledge sharing and stored faced by managers.
Commercial and manufacturing companies can help to individuals who operate in R&D activities through investment absorption in market. Since the findings of the study showed that the use of effective leadership, knowledge, managers should seek to establish a working group of experts from the sub-units of information terminals that if the problems encountered to help them through the integrated application of knowledge the knowledge to be solved. Companies consider

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CONCLUSION
Knowledge leadership as a driving force for knowledge management measures that are indirectly linked with innovation performance. In fact, the more leadership is broader, more developed knowledge management practices, which in turn affects the performance of innovation. According to to the increasing demand for knowledge and activities to integrate knowledge, innovation can promote exchange and interaction between people, thus leading to joint activities of knowledge management and innovation performance.