The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation
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...In the current globalized, digitalized and fast-pacedeconomy, the role of knowledge as a valuable organizational resource has gained increasing attention (Drucker, 1993; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Grant, 2002)....
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...This is 302 R&D Management 48, 3, 2018 VC 2017 RADMA and John Wiley & Sons Ltd especially true in low-tech firms which primarily utilise explicit knowledge (Schilling, 2011), and thus, knowledge that is easy to codify and transfer (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995)....
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...As high-tech companies deal largely with tacit knowledge (Schilling, 2011), which is difficult to codify and transfer (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995), their innovation efforts will benefit to a lesser extent from knowledge stored in manuals, databases and written procedures....
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...…the collaborative nature of the innovation process (p. 459); thus, the internal relationships among managers and employees that facilitate knowledge sharing (i.e. internal relational capital) are crucial in the development of innovations (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Carmona-Lavado et al., 2010)....
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...Moreover, the heavier reliance of low-tech firms on explicit knowledge (which can be easily codified and stored in databases; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) compared with high-tech companies explains the relevance of structural capital in low-tech firms....
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...Knowledge is one of the most important and valuable organizational resources contributing to sustainable competitive advantage (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995)....
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...Knowledge is one of the most important and valuable organizational resources contributing to sustainable competitive advantage (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995)....
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...This is especially important in the KM context, which focuses on the effective use of human intellectual capital, since much of human knowledge is tacit and intangible (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995)....
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...Organizational top and/or middle managers are usually responsible for the project’s vision (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995), elaborated during inception....
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...Groupware supports social interaction and collaboration, considered essential for knowledge sharing (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995)....
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...Knowledge is today recognized as one of the most important assets of competitive businesses (Alavi and Leidner, 1999) (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) (Wiig, 1994)....
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...This externalization and internalization cycle seems to coincide with Nonaka and Takeushi’s Knowledge Management (KM) theory (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995)....
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...Furthermore, the recognition of tacit knowledge and its importance has a number of crucially implications for company activities (Nonaka, 1995)....
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