The Knowledge-Creating company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

The Knowledge-Creating company addresses the generation-old question of why the Japanese are so successful in business. The authors, professors of management at Hitosubashi University, contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative, that is, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies.

The Knowledge-Creating company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi

Oxford University Press

1995

Abstract

The Knowledge-Creating company addresses the generation-old question of why the Japanese are so successful in business. The authors, professors of management at Hitosubashi University, contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative, that is, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. They identify two types of organizational knowledge: explicit knowledge, contained in procedures and manuals, and tacit knowledge, learned only by experience. U.S. managers tend to focus on explicit knowledge and stress approaches such as benchmarking, while the Japanese focus on tacit knowledge. Using corporate examples such as Honda, NEC, Nissan, 3M, and GE, the authors provide insights that reveal how to blend the best of both worlds. This scholarly volume is highly recommended not only for academics (especially in organizational theory) but also for readers doing business in and with Japan.?Joseph W. Leonard, Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio

The contents of the book include: Introduction to Knowledge in Organizations; Knowledge and Management; Theory of Orgazinational Knowledge Creation; Creating Knowledge in practice; Middle-up-down Management Process for Knowledge Creation; A new Organizational Structure; Global Organizational Knowledge Creation; Managerial and Theoretical Implications

Citation

Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi. The Knowledge-Creating company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Bộ sưu tập Lĩnh vực Kinh tế

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