Open AccessBook
The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that Japanese firms are successful precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies, and they reveal how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge.Abstract:
How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Learning from risks: A tool for post-project risk assessment
TL;DR: In this article, a learning-based approach is proposed for risk management in a real construction project, and a tool has been developed to facilitate construction of a lessons learned database that contains risk-related information and risk assessment throughout the life cycle of a project.
Journal ArticleDOI
Corporate venture capital as a means of radical innovation: Relational fit, social capital, and knowledge transfer
Barbara Weber,Christiana Weber +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new theoretical concept called "relational fit" is introduced, which consists of social capital and knowledge relatedness, and an empirical analysis of the influence that relational fit between German corporate venture capital units and their innovative portfolio companies (PCs) has on knowledge transfer and knowledge creation in the CVC-PC dyad.
Journal ArticleDOI
Organizational size and knowledge flow: a proposed theoretical link
TL;DR: It is proposed that 150 employees represents a general breaking point, after which knowledge sharing reduces due largely to increased complexity in the formal structure, weaker interpersonal relationships and lower trust, decreased connective efficacy, and less effective communication.
Journal ArticleDOI
COVID-19 crisis and SMEs responses: The role of digital transformation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the general weaknesses, strengths, challenges and opportunities for SMEs to face this pandemic, and how the field of knowledge management (KM) can help Based on the concepts of organizational resilience, they drafted a conceptual model to illustrate how their first responses were and how they could become more adapted.
Journal ArticleDOI
Italian industrial districts as cognitive systems: Are they still reproducible?
TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of new firms resulting from the break-away of human resources from existing district firms (spin-offs) is considered as a particular form of knowledge transfer and production within districts.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Review: Knowledge management and knowledge management systems: conceptual foundations and research issues
Maryam Alavi,Dorothy E. Leidner +1 more
TL;DR: The objective of KMS is to support creation, transfer, and application of knowledge in organizations by promoting a class of information systems, referred to as knowledge management systems.
Journal ArticleDOI
Knowledge Management: An Organizational Capabilities Perspective
TL;DR: This research suggests that a knowledge infrastructure consisting of technology, structure, and culture along with a knowledge process architecture of acquisition, conversion, application, and protection are essential organizational capabilities or "preconditions" for effective knowledge management.
Journal ArticleDOI
Managing the co-creation of value
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the nature of value co-creation in the context of service-dominant (S-D) logic and develop a conceptual framework for understanding and managing value cocreation.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Influence of Intellectual Capital on the Types of Innovative Capabilities
Mohan Subramaniam,Mark Youndt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how aspects of intellectual capital influenced various innovative capabilities in organizations and found that human, organizational, and social capital and their interrelationships selectively influenced incremental and radical innovative capabilities.
Journal ArticleDOI
Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a perspective on knowing in practice which highlights the essential role of human action in knowing how to get things done in complex organizational work and suggest that the competence to do global product development is both collective and distributed, grounded in the everyday practices of organizational members.
Related Papers (5)
Innovation in UK companies. An Evaluation of the Implementation of Best Practice in Front End Innovation Processes and Methodologies
Patrick J. Trotter,Jason Vaughan +1 more