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The Knowledge-Creating Company
How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
298 pages
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line figures, tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-509269-1
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Hardback
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07 September 1995
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- An inside look at how Japanese businesses create knowledge
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.Readership: Business managers and general business readers, MBA level courses in Japanese management and management of innovation.
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Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, both Professors of Management, Institute of Business Research, Hitosubashi University, Tokyo
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"When the authors detail specific examples of knowledge creation, the reader's interest awakens." - The Wall Street Journal
"Nonaka and Tekuchi demonstrate for the reader how it is possible to transfer tacit knowledge into explicit, which in turn is used to create new knowledge." - Knowledge Management, June 2000
"Nonaka is indispensable." - Financial Times
"Nonaka and Takeuchi have written an academic study that summarises their theories and presents case studies illustrative to a western audience ... a guide to practitioners, based on materials for workshops and consultancy by the authors." - Financial Times
"Provides a perceptive and very relevant analysis of how Japanese companies go about creating new knowledge organizationally ... One of the most valuable new books I have covered ... for some time." - Long Range Planning
"The book, an esoteric mixture of philosophy and practical guidance, has been a business bestseller in the US." - Charles Leadbeater, Financial Times
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