_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: wachingamuthoni@gmail.com; Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting 21(15): 28-46, 2021; Article no.AJEBA.75391 ISSN: 2456-639X Influence of Knowledge Management Capabilities on the Performance of Mobile Telephone Firms in Kenya Joy Wachinga 1* and Jared Deya 2 1 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. 2 Department of Business Administration, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between both authors. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/AJEBA/2021/v21i1530476 Editor(s): (1) Prof. Chun-Chien Kuo, National Taipei University of Business, China. Reviewers: (1) Gede Ariadi, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia. (2) M. M. Dede Suleman, Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika, Indonesia. (3) Bilson Simamora, Kwik Kian Gie School of Business and Information Technology, Indonesia. Complete Peer review History: https://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/75391 Received 01 August 2021 Accepted 07 October 2021 Published 11 October 2021 ABSTRACT With intensifying rivalry in the mobile telephone industry, mobile telephone firms are finding knowledge management capabilities as vital resource for ensuring their performance. However, there is scanty empirical literature to help these firm associate knowledge management capabilities to their performance, hence this study which sought to ascertain the inspiration of knowledge management capabilities on the performance of mobile telephone firms in Kenya. it objectives were to; establish the influence of knowledge acquisition, find out the influence of knowledge application, determine the role of knowledge transfer, ascertain how knowledge protection influence, and stablish the joint effect of knowledge management capabilities (knowledge acquisition, knowledge application, knowledge transfer and knowledge protection) on the performance of the mobile telephone firms in Kenya. This study adopted descriptive survey design where it used a target population of the 63 heads of human resources, information marketing and finance from the 21 telephone firms operating in Kenya. Since the target population was easily manageable and readily accessible, census was used. The data which was collected data from primary sources using Original Research Article