Knowledge Creation and Management New Challenges for Managers - Kazuo Ichijo & Ikujiro Nonaka.pdf

KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT
New Challenges for Managers
Editors-in-Chief
Kazuo Ichijo
Ikujiro Nonaka
1
2007
1
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Knowledge creation and management : new challenges for managers / editors-in-chief,
Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13 978-0-19-515962-2
ISBN 0-19-515962-4
1. Intellectual capital—Management. 2. Knowledge management. I. Ichijo, Kazuo.
II. Nonaka, Ikujiro, 1935–
2006
'038—dc22 2006040120
987654321
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
Preface
his book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge
Tcreation and management in readable and non-technical chap-
ters. Knowledge continues to be a critical—perhaps the critical—factor for
firms in today’petitive environment. The field of knowledge creation and
management has been growing quickly as studies of firms that have ess-
fully applied these tools have proliferated. As a result,