scholarly journals Knowledge Creation in New Ventures Based on the SECI Model: Similarities and Differences Between Japan, South Korea, and Austria

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Nadja Drexel
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Research Question ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Seci Model ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
A Company

Abstract This research deals with the question of which similarities and differences exist between Japanese, South Korean, and Austrian new ventures in terms of knowledge creation. The theoretical framework supporting this research is the SECI model developed by the two Japanese economists Nonaka Ikujiro and Takeuchi Hirotaka. Under the consideration of five conditions that must be met in a company, new knowledge can be created through the interaction of implicit and explicit knowledge by passing through the four modes socialisation, externalisation, combination, and internalisation. To answer this research question, an online questionnaire was sent to new ventures in Japan, South Korea, and Austria with a total of 154 companies participating. Additionally 12 expert interviews with employees or founders of new ventures were held. The result of the nonrepresentative research showed that a lot of similarities exist among the surveyed companies in terms of knowledge creation. Still there exists one important difference in the implementation of one of the five conditions of the SECI model. In comparison to Austrian companies, the majority of the Japanese and South Korean new ventures stated that their management often intentionally causes crisis/stress conditions, which can support the exchange of information and knowledge in a company.

The Impact of Culture on the Application of the SECI Model

2010 ◽  
pp. 26-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Haag ◽  
Yanqing Duan ◽  
Brian Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Seci Model ◽  
Organizational Knowledge Creation ◽  
Contextual Environment ◽  
The Impact

The concept of culture and its relationship with Nonaka’s SECI model, a widely used model of organizational knowledge creation, is discussed in this chapter. Culture, in various forms, is argued to impact on the SECI model and the model itself is embedded in a certain context. This context determines the characteristics of the knowledge creation modes as described by SECI and therefore makes the model either more, or less, pertinent in a given context. This is regardless of whether that context is primarily determined by national culture, organizational culture or other factors. Differences in emphases in a given contextual environment on either tacit or explicit knowledge also impacts on knowledge creation as defined by SECI. Finally, it is emphasized that being conscious of the cultural situatedness of the SECI model can lead to a more adequate use of the model for organizational knowledge creation.

scholarly journals The Japanese Model of Knowledge Management

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Grażyna Gierszewska
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Organisational Learning ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Japanese Management ◽  
Formal Knowledge ◽  
Seci Model ◽  
New Knowledge

Abstract The effectiveness of Japanese management methodologies is making them increasingly popular with business organisations all over the world. This paper aims to present one of the least known knowledge management theories: the knowledge creation model by I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi. In their approach to the theory of organisational learning and knowledge creation, Nonaka and Takeuchi propose a categorisation of knowledge into tacit and explicit (formal) knowledge and explore the relationships between knowledge production, transfer and application; they also address the issue of applying existing and creating new knowledge. Presented SECI model captures the conversion of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge in four steps: Socialisation, Externalisation, Combination and Internalisation. The paper examines case studies that illustrate the practical application of the processes.

scholarly journals Adaptation in South Korean Society of North Korean Elite Defectors

Studia Humana ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Levi
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Major Research ◽  
The South ◽  
South Korean Government ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
South Korean ◽  
North Korean Defectors

Abstract This paper aims to explain the adaptation of North Korean elite defectors who fled from North Korea. Data used for the purpose of this article came from surveys of North Korean defectors conducted in the late 2000’s. Findings of the realized research indicate that the majority of senior defectors are experiencing less psychological and material issues when adjusting to society than regular North Korean defectors. The paper will proceed in three steps: explaining the notion of defectors, outlining their background, and focusing on their adaptation in South. Although defectors as a whole has emerged as of the most research group as a minority in South Korea, the so-called senior defectors have hardly been spotlighted. Basically North Korean senior defectors are supposed to strengthen the anti-Kim movement and legitimize the power of the South Korean government and the image of South Korea abroad. What has to be enlightened upon is the fact that North Korean senior defectors partially disagree with the integration policy of South Korean authorities. A major research question emerges: How are the experience of elite defectors localized in South Korea? How do their specific identities impact their opinion within the South Korean society? The aim of the article is also to categorize senior defectors and to provide in a single document a list of senior North Korea defectors based abroad. This kind of information is only available for Korean speaking readers. I wanted to make it accessible to the Englishspeaking community.

A Knowledge Management Process in Communities of Practice of Engineering Based on the SECI Model for Knowledge

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akila Sarirete ◽  
Azeddine Chikh
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Learning Network ◽  
Seci Model

With the vast movement toward promoting and developing models, practices, and technological environments in the engineering domain, a need exists to facilitate communication, collaboration, and coordination among its actors. Communities of Practice (CoPs) represent the natural and logical solution to answer these needs. In this paper, the authors propose a knowledge management process to exploit tacit and explicit knowledge in the engineering domain within the framework of a CoP of engineering. The approach used in this work introduces new elements in the Nonaka’s SECI model for knowledge creation. To validate the proposed process, a qualitative case study has been conducted on two CoPs, “CPsquare” and “The Cisco Learning Network”. It has been shown that CoPs and social learning impact learning as well as knowledge sharing. The use of web technologies and socio-technical approach in the management of knowledge is of high importance.

Knowledge Dynamics

2015 ◽  
pp. 103-126
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Dynamic Theory ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Conversion ◽  
Seci Model ◽  
Organizational Knowledge Creation ◽  
Knowledge Dynamics ◽  
Cognitive Knowledge

In the chapter about cognitive knowledge, the author introduced the dyad of explicit-tacit knowledge developed by Ikujiro Nonaka and his colleagues. This dyad represents the conceptual framework of the dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation. The breakthrough of this theory is the SECI model, which consists of four knowledge conversion processes: socialization (from tacit knowledge to tacit knowledge), externalization (from tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge), combination (from explicit knowledge to explicit knowledge), and internalization (from explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge). All of these knowledge conversion processes may happen in Ba, a dynamic context where interactions between people take place. The purpose of this chapter is to present the main concepts and ideas of the dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation developed by Nonaka and his colleagues, a theory that represents a major contribution to the development of knowledge management.

scholarly journals Trosopplæringsplanen som kunnskapsressurs – med taus kunnskap som kilde

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 241-255
Author(s):  
Asbjørn Gutubø Håkonseth
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Seci Model ◽  
Development Evaluation ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Church

Trosopplæring i Den norske kirke er formalisert gjennom lokale planer for trosopplæring i hver menighet. Menighetene utarbeider og videreutvikler planene lokalt, på grunnlag av føringer fra sentralt hold. I denne artikkelen bruker jeg SECI-modellen til Nonaka et al. (2000), om kunnskapsutvikling som en dialektisk prosess mellom taus og eksplisitt kunnskap, til å forstå lokale trosopplæringsplaner som systemiske kunnskapsressurser. Ved å analysere rammer, retningslinjer og ressurser for det lokale planarbeidet, viser jeg at det er en mangel på ressurser som utnytter den eksisterende tause kunnskapen i trosopplæringsarbeidet. Evalueringsrutinene er et unntak fra dette. Jeg diskuterer med bakgrunn i SECI-modellen hvordan den lokale trosopplæringsplanen og evalueringsrapportene kan spille en viktigere rolle som kollektive kunnskapsressurser, som blir utvikla og brukt i tverrfaglig samarbeid.Nøkkelord: trosopplæring, kunnskapsutvikling, SECI, taus kunnskap, planrevisjon, evalueringChristian education in the Church of Norway is formalised through local curricula in each congregation, documents that are created and maintained locally based on centrally given regulations and resources. The process in which the local curricula are developed, is in this article understood in terms of the SECI model of Nonaka et al. (2000), as a dialectical knowledge creation process between tacit and explicit knowledge. Analysing the regulations and resources for the local curriculum development, I find that there is a lack of resources developing the curriculum based on existing tacit knowledge, except from the given evaluation routines. I also discuss, supported by the SECI model, how the local curriculum and the evaluation reports can play a more important role as shared, collective knowledge assets, developed and used in interdisciplinary/interprofessional cooperation.Keywords: Christian education, knowledge creation, SECI, tacit knowledge, curriculum development, evaluation

Contexting Koreans: Does the High/Low Model Work?

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Thomas
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Similarities And Differences

South Korea is assumed to be a high-context culture with extensive shared information and an emphasis on relationships in doing business. The follow ing study reported here tests this assumption and illustrates similarities and differences between Korean and American writers in an attempt to document language differences between high- and low- context societies. Data in the texts studied did not confirm the high/low contextfeatures expected. South Korean texts showed more similarities to than differences from the American texts, and the language features found suggest a more complex context situa tion than the high/low context model may be able to accommodate.

scholarly journals Adopting the Concept of ‘Ba' and the ‘SECI' Model in Developing Person-Centered Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christie Attard ◽  
Michelle Elliot ◽  
Paulann Grech ◽  
Brendan McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Knowledge Conversion ◽  
Seci Model

The concept of knowledge is divided into explicit and tacit knowledge; explicit knowledge refers to the knowledge that can be articulated, written and stored, while tacit knowledge refers to personal experiences, values, beliefs and emotions of an individual. By Nonaka's theory, explicit and tacit knowledge do not lie separately but interact together by interactions and relationships between human beings. Thus, the SECI model is based on the assumption that knowledge is created through the social interaction of tacit and explicit knowledge; known as knowledge conversion. The SECI model is based upon four modes of knowledge conversion; socialization, externalization, combination and internalization. 'Ba' is considered to be a shared platform for knowledge creation. 'Ba' is a shared space, be it physical, mental or a combination of both that serves as a foundation of knowledge creation. Ba involves sharing of tacit knowledge i.e. emotions, feelings, experiences and mental images. It also involves the formation of a collective relationship which is open to the sharing of practices, values, processes and culture. This concept focuses mainly on the individual as a person who holds the knowledge rather than just on the knowledge itself. It aims to create a common space to bring people together where they can dialogue to share and create knowledge. As in the relationships formed in person-centered practices, relationships formed in Ba are based on not just the sharing of objective knowledge but also on sharing values, beliefs, and emotions. It also reflects the formation of a person-centered environment as a basis for person-centered research where healthful relationships with the participants are formed. Furthermore, Ba will aid in creating a sense of connectiveness and dialogue, thus focusing on the idea that the development of new practices is done with others rather than to others. In this article we will discuss how these Eastern concepts can be adapted and used to develop person-centered practices within child and adolescent mental health services, specifically related to rehabilitation and recovery. The concepts of personhood will be discussed, followed by a reflection on current practices adopted when working with children and adolescents.

A Comparative Analysis of Two Qualitative Methods: Deciding Between Grounded Theory and Phenomenology for Your Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Masoodi Marjan
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Applied Approach ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Research Students

Abstract The purpose of this article is to compare two qualitative approaches that can be used in different researches: phenomenology and grounded theory. This overview is done to (1) summarize similarities and differences between these two approaches, with attention to their historical development, goals, methods, audience, and products (2) familiarize the researchers with the origins and details of these approaches in the way that they can make better matches between their research question(s) and the goals and products of the study (3) discuss a brief outline of each methodology along with their origin, essence and procedural steps undertaken (4) illustrate how the procedures of data analysis (coding), theoretical memoing and sampling are applied to systematically generate a grounded theory (5) briefly examine the major challenges for utilizing two approaches in grounded theory, the Glaserian and Straussian. As a conclusion, this overview reveals that it is essential to ensure that the method matches the research question being asked, helps the researchers determine the suitability of their applied approach and provides a continues training for the novice researchers, especially PhD or research students who lack solid knowledge and background experience in multiple research methods.

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