The effect of strategic entrepreneurship on knowledge management performance: A research on top 500 information companies

Today's global competitive environment, the firms, with their limited resources, have to create maximum value for shareholders by combining, analyzing the behaviors of competition advantage-seeking and opportunity-seeking as well as by providing balance between each other. This obligation caused strategic entrepreneurship concept to emerge as a result of integration of entrepreneurship and strategic management fields which develop independently from each other by the year 2000s. Strategic entrepreneurship is involved in entrepreneurial activities from the strategic point of view. İn an economy where the only thing that is certain is uncertainly, the only reliable resource of gaining continuous opportunity-seeking and competition superiority is knowledge. When markets change, technologies proliferate, rivals increase and rapidly aging imitation products, the firms which manage to survive are the ones using strategic Entrepreneurship and knowledge management consistently. This study aims to determine effect of strategic entrepreneurship on knowledge management performance. This study includes explanatory knowledge about strategic entrepreneurship and knowledge management. The practice has been performed in top 500 information companies and the results are analyzed and interpreted via SPSS statistic program. Key Words: Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management Performance