The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
In the 1980s and 1990s, Japan’s and the United States’ work cultures clashed with a competition of values. The Japanese were deemed more innovative while the Americans were deemed more interested in taking advantage of the status quo. Both authors, rooted in Japanese culture yet educated in America, noted that implicit knowledge drove Japanese innovation while explicit knowledge drove American business. In this book, they describe what happens when these two paradigms unite in creative…
