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The knowledge-creating theory revisited: knowledge creation as a synthesizing process

Nonaka, Ikujiro, Toyama, Ryoko·2003·Knowledge Management Research & Practice
DOI 10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500001
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This paper is a part of our attempt to build a new knowledge-based theory of the firm and organization to explain the dynamic process of knowledge creation and utilization. For this, we revisit the theory of knowledge creation through the SECI process and ba, and try to advance them further by incorporating the dialectic thinking. In this paper, knowledge creation is conceptualized as a dialectical process, in which various contradictions are synthesized through dynamic interactions among individuals, the organization, and the environment. With the view of a firm as a dialectic being, and strategy and organization should be re-examined as the synthesizing and self-transcending process instead of a logical analysis of structure or action. An organization is not an information-processing machine that is composed of small tasks to carry out a given task, but an organic configuration of ba. Ba, which is conceptualized as a shared context in motion, can transcend time, space, and organization boundaries to create knowledge.

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Authors
Nonaka, I., & Toyama, R.
Venue
Knowledge Management Research & Practice
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2003-07
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
2-10
ISSN
  • 1477-8238 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-8246
DOI
10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500001
OpenAlex
W1992430289
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1,190
References
9
FWCI
73.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed

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