Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm
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Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm is a management book that develops a process-oriented theory of how organizations create, share, and utilize knowledge to achieve innovation and competitive advantage.
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| Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm canonical | 1 |
| “Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10995060 — 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: Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm Context triple: [Ikujiro Nonaka, notableWork, Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm]
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- 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: Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm Target entity description: Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm is a management book that develops a process-oriented theory of how organizations create, share, and utilize knowledge to achieve innovation and competitive advantage.
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A.
"The Nature of the Firm"
"The Nature of the Firm" is a foundational 1937 economic essay by Ronald Coase that explains why firms exist and how transaction costs shape their size and structure.
-
B.
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence is a scholarly work by James G. March that explores how organizations learn, make decisions, and adapt under conditions of ambiguity and limited rationality.
-
C.
On Incentives and Control in Organizations
"On Incentives and Control in Organizations" is an influential doctoral thesis in economics that develops foundational theories on how incentive structures and control mechanisms shape behavior and performance within firms.
-
D.
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
"Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance" is a foundational business strategy book by Michael Porter that explains how firms can achieve and maintain superior performance through cost leadership, differentiation, and value chain analysis.
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E.
Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond
"Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond" is a scholarly work by Oliver E. Williamson that surveys and extends key developments in organizational theory from Barnard’s foundational ideas to contemporary perspectives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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management book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
business administration
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strategic management ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explain how firms achieve innovation through knowledge
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explain how firms gain competitive advantage through knowledge ⓘ |
| author |
Ikujiro Nonaka
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Ryoko Toyama ⓘ Toru Hirata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contribution |
develops a process theory of the knowledge-based firm
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extends the knowledge-creation theory of the firm ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| field |
knowledge management research
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management studies ⓘ organization studies ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
creation of organizational knowledge
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dynamic processes in knowledge-based firms ⓘ sharing of knowledge in organizations ⓘ utilization of knowledge for innovation ⓘ |
| genre |
business
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management ⓘ |
| hasForm |
academic monograph
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printed book ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
competitive advantage
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innovation management ⓘ knowledge management ⓘ knowledge-based firm ⓘ organizational knowledge creation ⓘ process theory ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
SECI model
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ba (shared context for knowledge creation) ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Knowledge-Creating Company ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
graduate students in business
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management practitioners interested in knowledge management ⓘ researchers in management ⓘ |
| theoreticalApproach |
knowledge-based view of the firm
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process-oriented theory ⓘ |
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: Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm Description of subject: Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm is a management book that develops a process-oriented theory of how organizations create, share, and utilize knowledge to achieve innovation and competitive advantage.
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