Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation

by Ikujiro Nonaka, Toshihiro Nishiguchi

Overview

This book brings together the research of a number of scholars in the field of knowledge creation and imparts a sense of order to the field. The chapters share three characteristics: they are all grounded in extensive qualitative and/or quantitative research; they all go beyond the mere description of the knowledge-creation process and offer both theoretical and strategic implications; they share a view of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer as delicate processes, necessitating particular forms of support from managers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190284862
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/25/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Haas School, University of California at Berkeley

Hitotsubashi University

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Knowledge Emergence
2. Emergence of "Ba": A Conceptual Framework for the Continuous and Self-transcending Process of Knowledge Creation
3. Bringing Care into Knowledge Development of Business Organizations
4. The Influence of New 3-D CAD Systems on Knowledge Creation in Product Development
5. The Impact of Technology on Knowledge Creation: A Study of Experimentation in Integrated Circuit Design
6. The Temporal Dynamics of Knowledge Creation
7. Focusing Creativity: Microsoft's "Synch-and-Stabilize" Approach to Software Product Development
8. Cooperation and Knowledge Creation
9. Multinational Enterprises and Cross-Border Knowledge Creation
10. Knowledge Creation and the Internationalization of Japanese Companies: Front-Line Management Across Borders
11. Coevolution of Interorganizational Relations
12 "Co-opetition" in the Japanese Aircraft Industry
13. Shukko (Employee Transfers) and Tacit Knowledge Exchange in Japanese Supply Networks: The Electronics Industry Case
14. Absorptive Capacity, Co-opetition, and Knowledge Creation: Samsung's Leapfrogging in Semiconductors
15. Conclusion: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation
Index

Editorial Reviews

"In Knowledge Emergence, the editors have taken the efforts of prominent researchers in the field of knowledge creation and crafted a text that provides interested readers with a rich array of the perspectives in this emerging field of study. More important, this book takes these diverse works and imparts a sense of order to the field by allowing the respective authors to share their research efforts in the field of knowledge creation. . . . The book provides the interested reader, academic researcher, and organization manager valuable insights on how to grapple with the issue of knowledge creation."—Journal of Economic Issues

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