TY - JOUR AB - 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. VL - 2 IS - 2 SN - 1363-8483 DO - 10.1108/EUM0000000006333 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006333 AU - Kippenberger T PY - 1997 Y1 - 1997/01/01 TI - A new theory of knowledge creation T2 - The Antidote PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 14 EP - 15 Y2 - 2024/09/19 ER -