Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are challenged to stay in the market by developing innovative processes. Well-focused knowledge management helps organizations to strengthen their innovative capabilities by building highly competitive work teams through learning and organizational culture. This paper illustrates an exploration of different databases of indexed journals and the analysis of different authors who focus on the importance of knowledge management as a competitive advantage for MSMEs. The scope is delimited in the documentary review from 2017 to 2023 and the analysis of the incidence of knowledge management in organizations.