A new theory of knowledge creation

Abstract

Delves into why the success of Japanese companies is believed to stem from their ability to create new knowledge using a team unit working together successfully. Reviews the fundamental differences between Japanese and Western attitudes to knowledge plus the implications this has for the way it is created and managed. Comments that to blindly emulate Japanese practice would be dangerous as are personal interpretations, but the way the Japanese acquire knowledge and then create more is to be commended.

Citation

Kippenberger, T. (1997), "A new theory of knowledge creation", The Antidote, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 14-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006333