The Japanese Model of Knowledge Management

Gierszewska Grażyna ()
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Gierszewska Grażyna: Faculty of Management Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Foundations of Management, 2012, vol. 4, issue 1, 7-16

Abstract: The effectiveness of Japanese management methodologies is making them increasingly popular with business organisations all over the world. This paper aims to present one of the least known knowledge management theories: the knowledge creation model by I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi. In their approach to the theory of organisational learning and knowledge creation, Nonaka and Takeuchi propose a categorisation of knowledge into tacit and explicit (formal) knowledge and explore the relationships between knowledge production, transfer and application; they also address the issue of applying existing and creating new knowledge. Presented SECI model captures the conversion of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge in four steps: Socialisation, Externalisation, Combination and Internalisation. The paper examines case studies that illustrate the practical application of the processes.

Keywords: knowledge management; tacit knowledge; explicit knowledge; model by I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi; knowledge spiral (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.2478/fman-2013-0001

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