Abstract

Due to the importance of knowledge management in organizations and its impact on multiple fields, the importance of achieving smart organizations, and the availability of its characteristics, this research aims to find out the impact of knowledge management on smart organizations through using the qualitative method of research and review the previous studies and build a theoretical framework, which help to explain those research variables. The results concluded that knowledge management has impacts on competitiveness of organizations. Also, the results found that there is a clear interest of knowledge managements' requirements, where it found that there is a relation between KM requirements and the institutional performance. Also, this research found that there is a moderate degree of applying the characteristics of smart organizations depending on the previous studies. Moreover, it found that the application of smart organizations was in the organizations that work in the services field such as high education. Finally, the research recommends making comprehensive studies about the impact of knowledge management on smart organizations using applied strategy of scientific research.