Contributors 1: Ikujiro Nonaka and Toshihiro Nishiguchi: Introduction: Knowledge Emergence Part I Knowledge, BA, and Care 2: Ikujiro Nonaka, Noboru Konno, and Ryoko Toyama: Emergence of "Ba": A Conceptual Framework for the Continuous and Self-transcending Process of Knowledge Development of Business Organizations 3: Georg Von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo, and Ikujiro Nonaka: Bringing Care into Knowledge Development of Business Organizations Part II Technology and Cooperation 4: Kentaro Nobeoka and Yasunori Baba: The Influence of New 3-D CAD Systems on Knowledge Creation in product Development 5: Stefan H. Thomke: The Impact of Technology on Knowledge Creation: A Study of Experimentation in Integrated Circuit Design 6: The Temporal Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in the Information Society 7: Michael A. Cusumano: Focusing Creativity: Microsoft's "Synch-and-Stabalize" Approach to Software Product Development 8: Giorgio De Michelis: Cooperation and Knowledge Creation Part III Transnational Knowledge Creation 9: D. Eleanor Westney: Multinational Enterprises and Cross-Border Knowledge Creation 10: Kenichi Yasumuro and D. Eleanor Westney: Knowledge Creation and the Internationalization of Japanese Companies: Front-Line Management Across Borders Part IV Interfirm Relations 11: Toshihiro Nishiguchi: Coevolution of Interorganzational Relations 12: Sigrun Caspary and Tishihiro Nishiguchi: "Co-opetition" in the Japanese Aircraft Industry 13: James R. Lincoln and Christina Ahmadjian: Shukko (Employee Transfers) and Tacit Knowledge Exchange in Japanese Supply Networks: The Electronics Industry Case 14: Linsu Kim: Absorptive Capacity, Co-opetition, and Knowledge Creation: Samsung's Leapfrogging in Semiconductors 15: Ikujiro Nonaka and Toshihiro Nishiguchi: Conclusion: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation Index

"In Knowledge Emergence, the editors have taken the efforts of prominent researchers in the field of knowledge creation and crafted a text that provides interested readers with a rich array of the perspectives in this emerging field of study. More important, this book takes these diverse works and imparts a sense of order to the field by allowing the respective authors to share their research efforts in the field of knowledge creation. . . . The book provides the interested reader, academic researcher, and organization manager valuable insights on how to grapple with the issue of knowledge creation."--Journal of Economic Issues "Fourteen papers, originating at a conference held in Honolulu in December 1996, reveal the richness and diversity of knowledge-creation research, as well as identify common grounds that would lead to the emergence of a more field."--Journal of Economic Literature "In Knowledge Emergence, the editors have taken the efforts of prominent researchers in the field of knowledge creation and crafted a text that provides interested readers with a rich array of the perspectives in this emerging field of study. More important, this book takes these diverse works and imparts a sense of order to the field by allowing the respective authors to share their research efforts in the field of knowledge creation. . . . The book provides the interested reader, academic researcher, and organization manager valuable insights on how to grapple with the issue of knowledge creation."--Journal of Economic Issues