Abstract
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.
Keywords
Tacit knowledgeImitationAutomotive industryBusinessExplicit knowledgeCompetitive advantageKnowledge managementMarketingEngineeringComputer sciencePsychology
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Ikujiro Nonaka,
Hirotaka Takeuchi
(1995).
The Knowledge-Creating Company.
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195092691.001.0001
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