Nonaka revisited: Can Japanese companies sustain their knowledge management processes in the 21st century?

Innovation and Change in Japanese Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 199-220

  Hentschel, Benjamin ^a   Haghirian, Parissa ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 85015465199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230250536     Document Type: Chapter

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