The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation
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...Knowledge is one of the most important sources of competitive advantage for firms (Grant, 1996; Nonaka, 1990, 1991, 1994; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Nonaka and Toyama, 2003)....
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...This model is a contribution to organizational knowledge creation theory (Nonaka, 1994; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Nonaka et al., 2006; von Krogh et al., 2000) by filling a gap related to the GTK. 14 Aesthetics is the sensitive judgment of feelings, phantasms, fiction, and other things that the…...
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...First, in the front-end model of innovation, socialization, through which GTK is created, is a necessary, although not sufficient condition for knowledge creation (Kluge et al., 2001; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; von Krogh et al., 2000)....
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...Next, we discuss the role of advanced information technology in enabling or constraining group members’ socialization and derive implications for the QGTK. Finally, we discuss managerial implications resulting from our model and outline imperatives for future theory building and empirical research....
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...…1992), ‘‘collective” (Alavi and Leidner, 2001; Gourlay, 2006; Leonard and Sensiper, 1998; Nonaka, 1994; Spender, 1996), ‘‘social” (Spender, 1996), ‘‘communal” (Brown and Duguid, 2001) or even ‘‘organizational” (Chou and He, 2004; Kogut and Zander, 1992; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) tacit knowledge....
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...Exploitation mainly follows trial and error learning (Nelson & Winter, 1982; Levinthal & March, 1993; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Eisenhardt & Martin, 2000) and is focused on harnessing old certainties....
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...Work in industry by Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995), based in part on earlier postulates by Polyani (1967), posits that knowledge is created in four different ways that are different combinations of explicit and tacit knowledge: socialisation, externalisation, internalisation and combination....
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...…is ‘the dynamic processes of interpersonal interaction (e.g. discussion, debate, or joint problem solving) through which “one unit (e.g. group, department, or division) is affected by the experience of another”’ (Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995; Argote and Ingram 2000, p. 151; Söderquist 2006, p. 499)....
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...According to Nonaka and Takeuchi ( 1995 ), knowledge sharing is a prerequisite for converting general ideas and concepts into specific products and services....
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...…been related to various antecedents including managerial actions and organizational structures (e.g. functional redundancy or overlapping; Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995) and situational factors (e.g. technology such as shareware; Hendriks 1999), transient individual psychological perceptions,…...
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...These findings extend the literature on knowledge management, which has emphasized environmental, especially managerial influences on knowledge sharing (Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995; Cabrera and Cabrera 2002), by including personal dispositions as determinants of knowledge sharing....
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...(Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995)....
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...However, with a few notable exceptions (Ferlie, Fitzgerald, Wood, & Hawkins, 2005; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Van de Ven, Polley, Garud, & Venkataraman, 1999), there are very few descriptions of how knowledge exchange unfolds in practice settings and, as Ferlie points out, even fewer of how it…...
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...The knowledgewhich is needed to solve problems and bring about changes is likely to be distributed throughout organisations and to come frommany different sources (Considine, Lewis, & Alexander, 2009; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995)....
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