The university organization and its social function of knowledge management

Abstract

The university is important for its environment because it develops knowledge with scientific and technological characteristics as a result of the function it performs. For this reason, the question of what are the elements of the social function carried out by the university? The aim is to detect the basic function of higher education institutions. From a non-experimental and transversal documentary research, based on the methodology of complex systems of the organization, the knowledge management theory is depth analyzed and exposed to knowledge management of the university like a social function, and it is a basis of the institutional performance of the Ecuadorian university, with the teaching, research, dissemination of culture, like a specific function.