Knowledge Management Practices and Organizational Innovation: Moderating Role of Technology Orientation among NGX-Listed Firms

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management practices (KMPs) and organizational innovation among firms listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) over the period 2011–2025, while exploring the moderating role of technology orientation in this nexus. Drawing on a panel dataset of 148 listed firms (2,220 firm-year observations) and employing fixed-effects panel regression with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, the findings reveal that knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, knowledge application, and knowledge storage each exert statistically significant and positive effects on organizational innovation. Critically, technology orientation amplifies all four KMP-innovation relationships, confirming its role as a strategic catalyst. Control variables — firm size and industry type — are positively and significantly associated with innovation, while firm age yields an insignificant effect. These results contribute novel empirical evidence to the knowledge-based view and dynamic capabilities framework within an emerging African market context, offering important practical implications for corporate strategy, regulatory policy, and capital market governance.