Knowledge Management Criteria in the Banking Industry: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 2 by Sirius Huang and Version 1 by Chih-Hsiung Chang.

Banks’ performance and profitability were influenced significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic. Facing the impact and challenges derived from the pandemic, some responsive measures needed to be adopted by the banking industry. Supported by successful sustainability performance and a competitive advantage, accurate knowledge management could help organizations to survive future pandemics.

  • COVID-19
  • knowledge management (KM)
  • banking industry

1. Introduction

COVID-19 has damaged the international economy and banking systems worldwide. Hence, banks’ performance and profitability were influenced significantly (Gazi et al. 2022b). The results indicated that the volatility spillover index increased during the pandemic crisis (Mohamed and Salah Eddin 2022). In other words, the banks were the main sector associated with volatility spillover (Chirilă 2022). Therefore, commercial banks were also exposed to the pandemic, which had a negative impact on their efficiency and productivity (Ünlü et al. 2022). Accordingly, it was found that insured or uninsured depositors chose different banks due to the pandemic as a result of the effect of political and financial events (Ghouse et al. 2022).
Facing the impact and challenges derived from the pandemic, some responsive measures needed to be adopted by the banking industry. Digitalization was the measure mentioned most often. Stefanovic et al. (2021) proposed that digitalization was an important factor and needed to be strengthened and included in bank strategies during the pandemic. Szili et al. (2022) argued that many factors could affect the choice made by banks because these factors might also change and speed up the digitalization of banks. Supari and Anton (2022) highlighted that it was necessary to intervene in small and medium enterprises and help them to increase their resilience by means of digitalization. Specifically, the financial digitalization technologies that were usually employed by the banking industry to respond to the pandemic included Fintech (Abdul-Rahim et al. 2022), online payment, a hybrid machine learning and swarm metaheuristic approach (Jovanovic et al. 2022), and big data from FinTech websites (Sakas et al. 2022). Similarly, Ar and Abbas (2021a) explored the application of information communication technology in the Pakistani government and also recognized the contributions to COVID-19, ICT, the e-government, and public–private collaboration.
In addition, the corporate governance mechanism was thought to be effective in improving the financial performance of banks during the pandemic (El-Chaarani et al. 2022). Therefore, corporate governance had been regarded as the moderator of knowledge management, business strategy, and innovation capabilities, which are important to improving organizational effectiveness and competitiveness (Kien and That 2022). Furthermore, Kabbani et al. (2022) suggested that banks should encourage leaders to strengthen suitable behaviors and attitudes to create an ethical culture and improve employees’ willingness to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Additionally, Soemitra et al. (2022) proposed that the Micro Waqf Bank had played a role in empowering women to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. Influential Standards Necessary for Successful Knowledge Management

Initially, the pandemic was a health emergency and eventually caused an unpredictably negative influence on the global economy. Unfortunately, no country could be regarded as exemplary in their response to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic (Mustafa et al. 2021). Amir et al. (2021) also asserted that education, communication, and information were the primary methods in the early phase of the pandemic before the vaccines. Akram et al. (2018) argued that the banking industry had to continue to review its explicit and implicit management strategies to meet changing consumer needs and its sustainable development to improve organizational performance because the impact on the banking industry, especially consumer finance, was immediately apparent. Mila et al. (2021) stressed that knowledge management played a vital role during the COVID-19 outbreak, although knowledge management strategies were different in domestic and foreign enterprises and had different impacts on the varying levels of organizations. Therefore, supported by successful sustainability performance and a competitive advantage, accurate knowledge management could help organizations to survive future pandemics. 

2.1. Headquarters System

In terms of headquarters, Laidroo and Ööbik (2013) investigated the disclosed quantity of corporate social responsibility and the transparency of banks’ headquarters and argued that the patterns of disclosed quantities were different unit by unit. Furthermore, Barnes and Newton (2019) directly focused on the headquarters of the National Provincial Bank of England and demonstrated that its national identity was impressive as it differed from its rivals. Specifically, the banking industry could benefit from knowledge management and use their resources sufficiently (Cebi et al. 2010). In other words, the headquarters system recognized the inherent nature of organizations, which could facilitate their successful transformation during the pandemic. Therefore, the headquarters had to play an important role in various kinds of incentives, including hiring, promoting, and punishing, as well as enforcing rules, discouraging dissonant views and manipulating data (Broad 2007).

2.2. Human Resources

Due to the importance of the knowledge economy, human resources have been agreed upon as the most important resource for enterprises. In particular, corporate performance could be increased by improving human resources (Wu et al. 2022). Furthermore, the role of the human factor was essential in the implementation and application of the own normative system, which not only had the role of risk reduction, but also, in particular, the realization of the bank’s strategies and policies. It was seen that human resource management was already a priority element of the evolutionary strategies of a modern bank (Tomescu-Dumitrescu 2020). Similarly, D’Angelo et al. (2022) also argued that human resources had to play a leading role in developing human capital management on the basis of caring, evaluating, developing, and training. Additionally, the government was required to devote time to human resource management and reach the strategic goals of the banking industry (Van Hoa et al. 2022). Human resource management was even considered to be able to mitigate barriers and ensure effective and sufficient manpower in the Banking 4.0 era (Kuchciak and Warwas 2021). Additionally, human resource managers could apply human resource information systems to make strategic decisions with the help of timely and effective information (Mohamed et al. 2022). It is no wonder that Islamic financial principles needed to be supplemented with managerial skills. This was because human resources in Islamic finance had not their reached optimal level, especially in the banking industry (Firdiansyah 2021).

2.3. Corporate Image

Nedelchev (2003) stated that corporate image could be translated into identifying the corporation and communicating with its stakeholders. Osman et al. (2015) argued that even Islamic banks needed to incorporate a corporate performance image. It could be seen that corporate image was highly important, as expected. Furthermore, it was recognized that the positive corporate image (CI) served as a major factor for the stability of the banking system (Nedelchev 2002) and that corporate image had a positive effect on financial services provided by banks (Awan et al. 2018). Ologbenla (2021) even proposed that corporate governance could be substituted by corporate image, which had a significant influence on banks’ customer loyalty. In other words, banks needed corporate image to improve their competitiveness because corporate image was evaluated as more important than reputation by customers (Szwajca 2018). Furthermore, Ar and Abbas (2021b) argued that enterprises could boost their image through supporting the government and society, which could help them overcome the damaged caused by sickness and disease.

2.4. Location Advantage

Banks had to consider various problems when attempting to find a suitable location for their branches. For example, the distance from customers to the branches should be minimized. This factor determined the customers’ attraction to the banks (Talatahari et al. 2022). Heard et al. (2017) also proposed that location decisions were important for local banks, and suggested that past visits were more suitable for explaining recent visits. Taking foreign banks in Spain as an example, the location of offices might be positive or negative, depending on various types of variables (Corra-Arias 2020). Similarly, foreign banks in China did not receive the same benefits as domestic banks. Therefore, they could not perform as well as domestic banks even if they were in the same location. As a result, the cost of the disadvantages of being a foreign bank exceeded the cost of location disadvantages (Liu et al. 2021).

2.5. Innovation and Transformation

Innovation was important for banks to respond to COVID-19, which combined both knowledge management and business strategy and affected innovation capabilities (Kien and That 2022). Similarly, Edeh et al. (2022) proposed that knowledge management had an important impact on innovation in the banking industry. Therefore, knowledge management implemented by managers was proven to increase innovation capabilities, including marketing, producing, and processing. Furthermore, the innovation performance of the accounting system had a positive effect on the business performance when managers required performance evaluations (Gazi et al. 2022a). On the other hand, the implementation of financial innovation from nonfinancial firms also had to be supported to reduce various challenges and barriers (Błach 2020). It could be seen that innovation was an important factor to determine sustainable development and played a leading role from a financial perspective (Kuś and Grego-Planer 2021).

2.6. Marketing Strategy

Interactive marketing and database marketing were the dominant roles played by banks (Choudhury et al. 2022). Ndegwa (2022) proposed that banks should employ electronic marketing strategies to increase their competitiveness in the local or international market. Özkaynar (2022) argued that banks’ marketing strategies had to incorporate new technologies such as the Metaverse, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency. Islam et al. (2022) indicated that banks could gain more from event marketing than traditional advertising because the former could generate more attention than the latter. Simultaneously, Uksumenko et al. (2017) asserted that banks needed to adapt themselves to the fast changes and made use of digital marketing services such as Internet banking, mobile banking, and ATM, to connect their customers, which could help banks promote their products effectively and reach their marketing goals (Nguru et al. 2017).

2.7. Crisis Management

Banks were asked to contribute to the stability of the market and society during the pandemic crisis. Making access to credit easier or keeping rates low were among the options (Ordonez-Ponce et al. 2022). To adapt crisis management strategies to financial crises, banks had to pay more attention to crisis management, and anti-crisis tools were consequently developed to improve management performance (Sinyagovsky 2021). Additionally, with the deterioration of the financial conditions derived from COVID-19 and military aggression in Eastern Ukraine, the anti-crisis management of banks was employed more broadly to maintain the stability of the financial market (Drahan et al. 2021). In other words, it was believed that anti-crisis management was a dominant factor to overcome these challenges and ensure stability and sustainability in the development of banks (Rushchyshyn et al. 2022). Therefore, it could be recognized that anti-crisis management required a conceptual basis, which determined how they prioritized their functions to reduce and neutralize a crisis (Kopylyuk et al. 2019). Finally, central banks had to play a significant role in implementing crisis management and processing crisis resolution, though the crises were caused by imperfect market functioning (Singh 2018).
According to the objective, method, and findings, the seven criteria are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1. Summary of the seven criteria.

References

  1. Gazi, Md. Abu Issa, Md Nahiduzzaman, Iman Harymawan, Abdullah Al Masudand, and Bablu Kumar Dhar. 2022b. The Impact of COVID-19 on Financial Performance and Profitability of Banking Sector in Special Reference to Private Commercial Banks: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh. Sustainability 4: 6260.
  2. Mohamed, Beraich, and El Main Salah Eddin. 2022. Volatility Spillover Effects in the Moroccan Interbank Sector before and during the COVID-19 Crisis. Risks 10: 125.
  3. Chirilă, Viorica. 2022. Connectedness between Sectors: The Case of the Polish Stock Market before and during COVID-19. Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15: 322.
  4. Ünlü, Ulaş, Neşe Yalçın, and Nuri Avşarlıgil. 2022. Analysis of Efficiency and Productivity of Commercial Banks in Turkey Pre- and during COVID-19 with an Integrated MCDM Approach. Mathematics 10: 2300.
  5. Ghouse, Ghulam, Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, and Muhammad Hassam Shahid. 2022. Impact of COVID-19, Political, and Financial Events on the Performance of Commercial Banking Sector. Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15: 186.
  6. Stefanovic, Nikola, Lidija Barjaktarovic, and Alexey Bataev. 2021. Digitainability and Financial Performance: Evidence from the Serbian Banking Sector. Sustainability 13: 13461.
  7. Szili, Dóra, Tibor Guzsvinecz, and Judit Szűcs. 2022. How Banks Were Chosen and Rated in Hungary before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability 14: 6720.
  8. Supari, Supari, and Hendranata Anton. 2022. The Impact of the National Economic Recovery Program and Digitalization on MSME Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Bank Rakyat Indonesia. Economies 10: 160.
  9. Abdul-Rahim, Ruzita, Siti Aisah Bohari, Aini Aman, and Zainudin Awang. 2022. Benefit–Risk Perceptions of FinTech Adoption for Sustainability from Bank Consumers’ Perspective: The Moderating Role of Fear of COVID-19. Sustainability 14: 8357.
  10. Jovanovic, Dijana, Milos Antonijevic, Milos Stankovic, Miodrag Zivkovic, Marko Tanaskovic, and Nebojsa Bacanin. 2022. Tuning Machine Learning Models Using a Group Search Firefly Algorithm for Credit Card Fraud Detection. Mathematics 10: 2272.
  11. Sakas, Damianos P., Ioannis Dimitrios G. Kamperos, Dimitrios P. Reklitis, Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos, Dimitrios K. Nasiopoulos, Marina C. Terzi, and Nikos Kanellos. 2022. The Effectiveness of Centralized Payment Network Advertisements on Digital Branding during the COVID-19 Crisis. Sustainability 14: 3616.
  12. Ar, Anil Yasin, and Asad Abbas. 2021a. Public-private ICT-based collaboration initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program in Pakistan. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology 64.
  13. El-Chaarani, Hani, Rebecca Abraham, and Yahya Skaf. 2022. The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Financial Performance of the Banking Sector in the MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Region: An Immunity Test of Banks for COVID-19. Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15: 82.
  14. Kien, Cao Dinh, and Nguyen Huu That. 2022. Innovation Capabilities in the Banking Sector Post-COVID-19 Period: The Moderating Role of Corporate Governance in an Emerging Country. International Journal of Financial Studies 10: 42.
  15. Kabbani, Samira, Silva Karkoulian, Puzant Balozian, and Sandra Rizk. 2022. The Impact of Ethical Leadership, Commitment and Healthy/Safe Workplace Practices toward Employee Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccination/Implantation in the Banking Sector in Lebanon. Vaccines 10: 416.
  16. Soemitra, Andri, and Tri Inda Fadhila Rahma. 2022. The Role of Micro Waqf Bank in Women’s Micro-Business Empowerment through Islamic Social Finance: Mixed-Method Evidence from Mawaridussalam Indonesia. Economies 10: 157.
  17. Mustafa, Raza Rabbani, Mahmood Asad, Mohd Ali, Habeeb Ur Rahiman, Mohd Atif, Zehra Zulfikar, and Yusra Naseem. 2021. The Response of Islamic Financial Service to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Open Social Innovation of the Financial System. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 7: 85.
  18. Amir, Khorram-Manesh, Maxim A. Dulebenets, and Krzysztof GoniewiczInt. 2021. Implementing Public Health Strategies-The Need for Educational Initiatives: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18: 5888.
  19. Akram, Tayyaba, Shen Lei, Muhammad Jamal Haider, and Syed Talib Hussain. 2018. Exploring the Impact of Knowledge Sharing on the Innovative Work Behavior of Employees: A Study in China. International Business Research 11: 186–94.
  20. Mila, Kavalić, Milan Nikolić, Dragica Radosav, Sanja Stanisavljev, and Mladen Pečujlija. 2021. Influencing Factors on Knowledge Management for Organizational Sustainability. Sustainability 13: 1497.
  21. Laidroo, Laivi, and Urmas Ööbik. 2013. Banks’ CSR disclosures-headquarters versus subsidiaries. Baltic Journal of Management 9: 47–70.
  22. Barnes, Victoria, and Lucy Ann Newton. 2019. Symbolism in bank marketing and architecture: The headquarters of National Provincial Bank of England. Management & Organizational History 14: 1–32.
  23. Cebi, Ferhan, Onur Feray Aydin, and Sitki Gozlu. 2010. Benefits of Knowledge Management in Banking. Journal of Transnational Management 15: 308–21.
  24. Broad, Robin. 2007. Knowledge Management: A case study of the World Bank’s research department. Development in Practice 17: 700–8.
  25. Wu, You, Shengqi Wang, Xing Wang, and Zheng Wang. 2022. Application Research of Particle Swarm Algorithm in Bank Human Resource Management. Security and Communication Networks 2022: 8788894.
  26. Tomescu-Dumitrescu, Cornelia. 2020. Management of Human Resources in the Financial-Banking System. Annals-Economy Series 4: 71–76.
  27. D’Angelo, Chiara, Diletta Gazzaroli, Chiara Corvino, and Caterina Gozzoli. 2022. Changes and Challenges in Human Resources Management: An Analysis of Human Resources Roles in a Bank Context (after COVID-19). Sustainability 14: 4847.
  28. Van Hoa, Vu, Hoang Dung, Ha Thi Thu Phuong, and Pham Van Hieu. 2022. Human Resources Development of Vietnam Commercial Banking System. Cross Current International Journal of Economics, Management and Media Studies 4: 19–27.
  29. Kuchciak, Iwa, and Izabela Warwas. 2021. Designing a Roadmap for Human Resource Management in the Banking 4.0. Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14: 615.
  30. Mohamed, Pateh Bah, Ezekiel Kalvin Duramany-Lakkoh, and Ernest Udeh. 2022. Assessing the Effect of Human Resource Information Systems on the Human Resource Strategies of Commercial Banks. European Journal of Business Management and Research 7: 304–12.
  31. Firdiansyah, Fitra Azkiya. 2021. Optimization of Human Resources Management in Islamic Banking. JPS 2: 150–64.
  32. Nedelchev, Miroslav Colev. 2003. Management of the Corporate Image of Commercial Banks. SSRN Electronic Journal, Discussion Papers.
  33. Osman, Ismah, Sharifah Faigah Syed Alwi, Imani Mokhtar, Husniyati Ali, Fatimah Setapa, Ruhaini Muda, and Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahim. 2015. Integrating Institutional Theory in Determining Corporate Image of Islamic Banks. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 211: 560–67.
  34. Nedelchev, Miroslav Colev. 2002. Corporate Image of Commercial Banks (1996–1997). SSRN Electronic Journal, Discussion Papers.
  35. Awan, Hayat M., Sahar Hayat, and Rafia Faiz. 2018. Antecedents and consequences of corporate image: Conventional and islamic banks. Revista de Administração de Empresas 58: 418–32.
  36. Ologbenla, Patrick. 2021. Corporate Image Management and Bank Performance in Nigeria. Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Study 4.
  37. Szwajca, Danuta. 2018. Relationship between corporate image and corporate reputation in Polish banking sector. Oeconomia Copernicana 9: 493–509.
  38. Ar, Anil Yasin, and Asad Abbas. 2021b. Corporate Response Against COVID-19: Manufacturing Shift by Ford-Otosan. Annals of Global Health 87: 60.
  39. Talatahari, Siamak, Abolfazl Ranjbar, Mohammad Tolouei, and Iman Rahimi. 2022. 6-Multiobjective Charged System Search for Optimum Location of Bank Branch. In Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, pp. 119–33.
  40. Heard, Christopher, Flavio Menezes, and Alicia N. Rambaldi. 2017. The dynamics of bank location decisions in Australia. Australian Journal of Management 43: 031289621771757.
  41. Corra-Ariass, Manuel Ángel. 2020. Foreign bank location in Spain: An analysis by provinces. UCJC Business and Society Review 2020: 174–221.
  42. Liu, Li Xian, Fuming Jiang, Milind Sathye, and Hongbo Liu. 2021. Are Foreign Banks Disadvantaged Vis-À-Vis Domestic Banks in China? Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14: 404.
  43. Edeh, Friday Ogbu, Nurul Mohammad Zayed, Vitalii Nitsenko, Olha Brezhnieva-Yermolenko, Julia Negovska, and Maryna Shtan. 2022. Predicting Innovation Capability through Knowledge Management in the Banking Sector. Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15: 312.
  44. Gazi, Funda, Tarık Atan, and Mahmut Kılıç. 2022a. The Assessment of Internal Indicators on The Balanced Scorecard Measures of Sustainability. Sustainability 14: 8595.
  45. Błach, Joanna. 2020. Barriers to Financial Innovation—Corporate Finance Perspective. Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13: 273.
  46. Kuś, Agnieszka, and Dorota Grego-Planer. 2021. A Model of Innovation Activity in Small Enterprises in the Context of Selected Financial Factors: The Example of the Renewable Energy Sector. Energies 14: 2926.
  47. Choudhury, Archita Pal, Amit Kundu, Dev Narayan Sarkar, and Arabinda Bhattacharya. 2022. Practitioners’ perspectives on the marketing strategies in Indian banking sector: A framework for strategy formulation. Journal of Financial Services Marketing.
  48. Ndegwa, Rose. 2022. The Influence of Electronic Marketing Strategies on the Performance of Equity Bank Limited in Kenya. European Journal of Economic and Financial Research 5.
  49. Özkaynar, Kürşad. 2022. Marketing Strategies of Banks in the Period of Metaverse, Blockchain and Crypiocurrency in the Context of Consummer Behavior Theories. International Journal of Insurance and Finance, 1–12.
  50. Islam, Asraful, Abdullah Almamun, and Mijanur Rahman Molla. 2022. Analyzing the Uses of Event Marketing Strategy as the Experiential Marketing Stategy of Bank: A Study on a Commericial Bank Limited. International Journal of Marketing Research Innovation 6.
  51. Uksumenko, Alena Anatolia, Irina Kuzmicheva, and Olga Yurievna Vorozhbit. 2017. Effective marketing strategy for regional banks. European Research Studies Journal 20: 558–67.
  52. Nguru, Fracier, Kepha Ombui, and Mike A. Iravo. 2017. Effects of Marketing Strategies on the Performance of Equity Bank. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications 6: 569–76.
  53. Ordonez-Ponce, Eduardo, Truzaar Dordi, David Talbot, and Olaf Weber. 2022. Canadian banks and their responses to COVID-19—Stakeholder-oriented crisis management. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment 12: 423–30.
  54. Sinyagovsky, Yu. 2021. Object Field of Crisis Management at the Bank. Visnyk of Sumy State University, 228–35.
  55. Drahan, O. O., I. O. Herasymenko, and N. O. Verniuk. 2021. Anti-crisis management of the bank in the conditions of financial market instability. ResearchGate.
  56. Rushchyshyn, Nadiia M., Tetyana V. Medynska, and Serhii M. Klymenko. 2022. Application of Anti-Crisis Management by Ukrainian Banks in the Face of Modern Challenges. Business Inform 1: 314–22.
  57. Kopylyuk, Okcaha Ibahibha, Onekcahopa Mupohibha Muzychka, and Oneha Isopibha Lozynska. 2019. The Strategic Approach to Crisis Management in Banks of Ukraine. Business Inform 10: 226–32.
  58. Singh, Ravi Kumar. 2018. The Role of Central Bank in Crisis Management. SSRN Electronic Journal, Conference Paper.
More
Video Production Service