...rules of the business game. Ikujiro Nonaka, the well-known Japanese business expert, puts it this way: In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty,...disseminate it widely throughout the organization, and embody it quickly in new technologies and products. 3 Since the 1980s, many books and articles have...

...facilitates the learning of all its members and consciously transforms itself and its context, (p. 3) When markets shift, technologies proliferate, competitors...quickly embody it in new technologies and products, (p. 96) An organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying...

...multiply, and/or products become obsolete almost overnight, successful companies are those that constantly create new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout...quickly embody it in new technologies and products." (Nonaka 1991). This has led to an interest in idiosyncratic knowledge that is valuable, rare, immobile,...

...multiply, and/or products become obsolete almost overnight, successful companies are those that constantly create new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout...organization, and quickly embody it in new technologies 624 Sven A. Carlsson and products" (Nonaka, 1991). This has led to an interest in idiosyncratic knowledge...

...the managers at Loanco were unaware of, or unprepared to enact Nonaka's (1991: 96) prescription that 'successful companies are those that consistently...new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout the organisation, and quickly embody it in new technologies and products'. Indeed, a curious paradox arises...

...leerprocessen maken het mogelijk om veranderprocessen te versnellen, zoals al eerder is aangegeven. "Successful companies are those that consistently...throughout the organization, and quickly embody it in a new technology and products." (Nonaka 1998) Pasternack en Viscio (1999, p. 15) complementeren dat...

...only certainty is uncertainty, the one source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge and within successful companies are those that consistently create...new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout the organisation and quickly embody it in new technologies and products (Nonaka and Konno, 1998). ERP systems...

...markets shift, technologies proliferate, competition multiply and products become obsolete virtually overnight, successful companies are those that consistently...new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout the organisation and quickly embody it within new technologies and products. These activities define the...

...organizational learning Creating and maintaining a learning culture Silvia Salas and Mary Ann Von Glinow Successful companies are those that consistently create...new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout the organizations, and quickly embody it in new technologies and products. (Nonaka, 1991:96) Introduction...

...drivers of the knowledge-based economy (Economic and Social Council, 2000). It has been established that successful companies are those that consistently create...quickly embody it in new technologies and products (Nonaka, 1991). Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been an important factor in Singapore's economic...