The Influence of Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, and Risk Taking on Organizational Performance: Positive Innovation Outcomes as an Intervening Variable

Organizations today are faced with complex conditions along with the changes that occur. To sustain its place in the market, a company must, however, continue to be competitive. This study analyzes the relationship between knowledge management, organizational learning, risk-taking, positive innovation outcomes, and organizational performance. The traders at the Solo Klewer market who had been in business for more than two years made up the sample for this study, which included 100 respondents. The data analysis techniques used in this study were Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and Partial Least Square (PLS). The findings of this study demonstrate that knowledge management, organizational learning, and risk-taking have no significant positive relationships with organizational performance; nevertheless, they do have a strong positive relationship with successful innovation outcomes. Positive innovation results can significantly and positively mediate the relationships between knowledge management, organizational learning, risk-taking, and organizational performance. Positive innovation outcomes were used as a mediator variable in the findings to fill a vacuum in the research, and the results have practical implications for the use of innovation activities in organizational change management. This study had limitations, including the fact that it only looked at a few business sectors, limiting the findings’ applicability to broad-based, generalizable decision-making..