The Knowledge-Creating Company
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The Knowledge-Creating Company is a seminal management book by Ikujiro Nonaka that introduced the concept of organizational knowledge creation and the SECI model, profoundly influencing knowledge management theory and practice.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Knowledge-Creating Company canonical | 7 |
| The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10995057 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Knowledge-Creating Company Context triple: [Ikujiro Nonaka, notableWork, The Knowledge-Creating Company]
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A.
The Practice of Management
The Practice of Management is a seminal 1954 book by Peter F. Drucker that laid the foundations of modern management theory and popularized concepts such as decentralized decision-making and results-focused leadership.
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B.
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
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C.
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
The Competitive Advantage of Nations is a seminal business and economics book by Michael Porter that analyzes why certain countries achieve international success in particular industries through his influential "diamond" framework of national competitive advantage.
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D.
The Innovator's Dilemma
The Innovator's Dilemma is a seminal business book that explains how successful companies can fail by ignoring disruptive innovations that initially appear inferior but eventually transform entire industries.
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E.
In Search of Excellence
In Search of Excellence is the guiding motto of COMSATS University Islamabad, reflecting its commitment to high academic and research standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Knowledge-Creating Company Target entity description: The Knowledge-Creating Company is a seminal management book by Ikujiro Nonaka that introduced the concept of organizational knowledge creation and the SECI model, profoundly influencing knowledge management theory and practice.
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A.
The Practice of Management
The Practice of Management is a seminal 1954 book by Peter F. Drucker that laid the foundations of modern management theory and popularized concepts such as decentralized decision-making and results-focused leadership.
-
B.
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
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C.
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
The Competitive Advantage of Nations is a seminal business and economics book by Michael Porter that analyzes why certain countries achieve international success in particular industries through his influential "diamond" framework of national competitive advantage.
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D.
The Innovator's Dilemma
The Innovator's Dilemma is a seminal business book that explains how successful companies can fail by ignoring disruptive innovations that initially appear inferior but eventually transform entire industries.
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E.
In Search of Excellence
In Search of Excellence is the guiding motto of COMSATS University Islamabad, reflecting its commitment to high academic and research standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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management book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| argues | knowledge is the most important source of competitive advantage ⓘ |
| author |
Hirotaka Takeuchi
NERFINISHED
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Ikujiro Nonaka ⓘ |
| caseStudyOf |
Canon
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linked to:
Canon Inc.
Matsushita Electric ⓘ
linked to:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
Toyota ⓘ
linked to:
Toyota Motor Corporation
|
| componentOf | knowledge management literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| describes | Japanese companies as knowledge-creating organizations ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge
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middle-up-down management ⓘ role of managers in enabling knowledge creation ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation
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knowledge creation in organizations ⓘ |
| genre |
business
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management ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | resource-based view of the firm ⓘ |
| influenced |
innovation studies
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knowledge management practice ⓘ knowledge management theory ⓘ organizational learning research ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
innovation management
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knowledge management ⓘ organizational knowledge creation ⓘ organizational learning ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
SECI model
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ba ⓘ explicit knowledge ⓘ knowledge spiral ⓘ tacit knowledge ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| proposes |
combination
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externalization ⓘ internalization ⓘ socialization ⓘ |
| publishedInField | management studies ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic in organizational theory
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seminal work in knowledge management ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework |
SECI model of knowledge conversion
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linked to:
SECI model
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| usedBy |
knowledge management practitioners
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management consultants ⓘ |
| usedIn | business school curricula ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Knowledge-Creating Company Description of subject: The Knowledge-Creating Company is a seminal management book by Ikujiro Nonaka that introduced the concept of organizational knowledge creation and the SECI model, profoundly influencing knowledge management theory and practice.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nonaka
SECI model of knowledge creation
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relatedWork
→
The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
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linked to: The Knowledge-Creating Company
Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm
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relatedWork
→
The Knowledge-Creating Company
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subject linked to:
Ikujiro