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

by Nonaka, Ikujiro; Nishiguchi, Toshihiro

• ISBN13: 9780195130638
• ISBN10: 0195130634
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 meredescription 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction: Knowledge Emergence	3	(10)
Ikujiro Nonaka
Toshihiro Nishiguchi
PART I KNOWLEDGE, BA, AND CARE
Emergence of ``Ba'': A Conceptual Framework for the Continuous and Self-transcending Process of Knowledge Creation	13	(17)
Ikujiro Nonaka
Noboru Konno
Ryoko Toyama
Bringing Care into Knowledge Development of Business Organizations	30	(25)
Georg Von Krogh
Kazuo Ichijo
Ikujiro Nonaka
PART II TECHNOLOGY AND COOPERATION
The Influence of New 3-D CAD Systems on Knowledge Creation in Product Development	55	(21)
Kentaro Nobeoka
Yasunori Baba
The Impact of Technology on Knowledge Creation: A Study of Experimentation in Integrated Circuit Design	76	(17)
Stefan H. Thomke
The Temporal Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in the Information Society	93	(18)
Martin Kenney
Focusing Creativity: Microsoft's ``Synch-and-Stabilize'' Approach to Software Product Development	111	(13)
Michael A. Cusumano
Cooperation and Knowledge Creation	124	(23)
Giorgio De Michelis
PART III TRANSNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE CREATION
Multinational Enterprises and Cross-Border Knowledge Creation	147	(29)
D. Eleanor Westney
Knowledge Creation and the Internationalization of Japanese Companies: Front-Line Management Across Borders	176	(21)
Kenichi Yasumuro
D. Eleanor Westney
PART IV INTERFIRM RELATIONS
Coevolution of Interorganizational Relations	197	(26)
Toshihiro Nishiguchi
``Co-opetition'' in the Japanese Aircraft Industry	223	(24)
Sigrun Caspary
Toshihiro Nishiguchi
Shukko (Employee Transfers) and Tacit Knowledge Exchange in Japanese Supply Networks: The Electronics Industry Case	247	(23)
James R. Lincoln
Christina Ahmadjian
Absorptive Capacity, Co-opetition, and Knowledge Creation: Samsung's Leapfrogging in Semiconductors	270	(16)
Linsu Kim
Conclusion: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation	286	(5)
Ikujiro Nonaka
Toshihiro Nishiguchi
Index	291