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Business and Management

D-Index
59
Citations
88601
World Ranking
562
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Ikujiro Nonaka was affiliated with Hitotsubashi University in Japan. Their research activity focused primarily within the social sciences, contributing to various interdisciplinary subfields.

They published work in the area of social sciences and governance, as well as global and cross-cultural management. Their main fields of study included:

  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study covered:

  • Urban Studies
  • Anthropology

Nonaka's recent scholarly output includes a publication entitled "Humanizing strategy", published in 2021 in the journal Long Range Planning. This publication appeared in a journal where they have contributed at least one paper, indicating a focus on strategic and organizational topics.

Throughout their career, Nonaka frequently collaborated with other researchers. Notable co-authors included:

  • Helen F. Takeuchi
  • Hirotaka Takeuchi

Nonaka's recognition in the academic community included the distinction of being a Dean of Fellow at the Academy of Management, reflecting involvement in governance and leadership within the management academic sphere.

Best Publications

  • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Hirotaka Takeuchi

  • The Knowledge Creating Company

    Ikujiro Nonaka

  • A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation

    Ikujiro Nonaka

  • The Concept of "Ba": Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Noboru Konno

  • SECI, Ba and Leadership: a Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Ryoko Toyama;Noboru Konno

  • The New New Product Development Game

    Hirotaka Takeuchi;Ikujiro Nonaka

  • Perspective---Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge Conversion: Controversy and Advancement in Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Georg von Krogh

  • Enabling Knowledge Creation

    Georg von Krogh;Kazuo Ichijo;Ikujiro Nonaka

  • Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory: Evolutionary Paths and Future Advances:

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Georg von Krogh;Sven Voelpel

  • The knowledge-creating theory revisited: knowledge creation as a synthesizing process

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Ikujiro Nonaka;Ryoko Toyama

  • Assessing the Impact of Country of Origin on Product Evaluations: A New Methodological Perspective:

    Johny K. Johansson;Susan P. Douglas;Ikujiro Nonaka

  • A firm as a knowledge-creating entity: a new perspective on the theory of the firm

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Ryoko Toyama;Akiya Nagata

  • The knowledge creating company". Harvard Business Review : .

    I Nonaka

  • Toward Middle-Up-Down Management: Accelerating Information Creation

    I. Nonaka

  • The Knowledge-creating Theory Revisited: Knowledge Creation as a Synthesizing Process

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  • A THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE CREATION

    I Nonaka;H Takeuchi;K Umemoto

  • Managing Industrial Knowledge: Creation, Transfer and Utilization

    Ikujiro Nonaka;David J. Teece

  • Making the Most of Your Company's Knowledge: A Strategic Framework

    Georg von Krogh;Ikujiro Nonaka;Manfred Aben

  • Organizational knowledge creation theory: A first comprehensive test

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Philippe Byosiere;Chester C. Borucki;Noboru Konno

  • Creating Organizational Order Out of Chaos: Self-Renewal in Japanese Firms:

    Ikujiro Nonaka

  • Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge

    Meinolf Dierkes;Ariane Berthoin Antal;John Child;Ikujiro Nonaka

  • Leadership in Organizational Knowledge Creation: A Review and Framework

    Georg von Krogh;Ikujiro Nonaka;Lise Rechsteiner

  • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Hirotaka Takeuchi

  • How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Hirotaka Takeuchi

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Teece
David J. Teece University of California, Berkeley
Robin Holt
Robin Holt University of Bristol
John Child
John Child University of Birmingham
Susan P. Douglas
Susan P. Douglas New York University
Raymond E. Miles
Raymond E. Miles University of California, Berkeley
Martin Kenney
Martin Kenney University of California, Davis
Keiko Nakayama
Keiko Nakayama Tohoku University
Robert Chia
Robert Chia University of Glasgow
Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough University of California, Berkeley

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