Kimio Kase & César González Cantón 
Towards Organizational Knowledge 
The Pioneering Work of Ikujiro Nonaka

In recognition of Professor Ikujiro Nonaka’s contribution to the field of Knowledge Management this book, forming part of The Nonaka Series on Knowledge and Innovation from Palgrave Macmillan, deals with a variety of aspects of the Knowledge Management (KM) theory and the knowledge-based view of the firm.

Table of Content

Scholarship With Wisdom: An Introduction; Georg Von Krogh, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Kimio Kase and César G. Cantón PART I 1. Nonaka’s Contribution To The Understanding Of Knowledge Creation, Codification And Capture; David J. Teece 2. Nonaka And Km’s Past, Present And Future; J.-C. Spender 3 The Formation And Development Of Ikujiro Nonaka’s Knowledge Creation Theory; Fangqi Xu PART II 4. Nonaka’s ‘Dynamic Theory Of Knowledge Creation’ (1994): Reflections And An Exploration Of The ‘Ontological Dimension’; Robert M. Grant 5. The Purpose Of The Firm As Proposed By Nonaka: A Review Based On The Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition; Guillermo Fariñas Contreras 6. Out Of The Garbage Can?: How Continuous Improvement Facilitators Match Solutions To Problems; Florian Rittiner and Stefano Brusoni 7. The Knowledge-Based Theory Of The Firm And The Question Of Firm Boundaries; Pedro López Sáez, José Emilio Navas López, Gregorio Martín De Castro and Jorge Cruz González 8. Russia’s First Handbook Of Knowledge Management As A Reflector Of A Km Landscape Sui Generis; Nigel J. Holden 9. A Humanistic Approach To Knowledge-Creation: People-Centric Innovation; Yingying Zhang, Yu Zhou and Jane Mc Kenzie 10.Leaping To Optima? Knowledge Creation And Behavioral Theory 200;Patrick Reinmoeller 11. Revisiting The ‘Knowledge Creating Firm’ In The ‘Post-Capitalist Society’ Context; Noboru Konno PART III 12. Building Core Capabilities: The Roles Of Corporate Headquarters; Andrew Campbell 13. The Global Games Framework: Knowledge Creation Through Strategic Interaction; Rodolfo G. Campos 14. Knowledge After The Knowledge Creating Company: A Practitioner Perspective; Laurence Prusak and Thomas H. Davenport 15. Governing Knowledge Processes In Project-Based Organizations; Vesa Peltokorpi 16. Knowledge-Based Marketing: Fostering Innovation Through Marketing Knowledge Co-Creation; Florian Kohlbacher 17. Judgement-Making In The Face Of Contingency; Kimio Kase and César G. Cantón

About the author

David Teece, University of California, USA John-Christopher Spender, ESADE, Spain Fangqi Xu, Kinki University, Japan Robert Grant Bocconi University, Italy Guillermo Fariñas, Universidad Monteávila, Venezuela Stefano Brusoni, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland Florian Rittiner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland Jorge Cruz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Pedro Lopez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Martín Gregorio, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain José Emilio Navas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Nigel Holden, Leeds University Business School, UK Yingying Zhang , Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Jane Mc Kenzie, University of Reading, UK Yu Zhou, Renmin University of China, China Patrick Reinmoller, Cranfield University, UK Noboru Konno, Tama University, Japan Andrew Campbell, Ashridge Business School, UK Rodolfo G. Campos, University of Navarra, Spain Laurence Prusak, independent consultant Thomas Davenport, Babson College, USA Vesa Peltokorpi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Florian Kohlbacher, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo, Japan