Organisational knowledge creation theory: A first comprehensive test

Author(s)
Nonaka, I., Byosiere, P., Borucki, C. C. and Konno, N.
Pages
14pp
Date published
01 Dec 1994
Publisher
International Business Review
Type
Articles
Keywords
Assessment & Analysis, Organisational, Organisational Structure
Link
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0969593194900272

Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test Nonaka's ((1994) Organization Science, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 14–37) a priori model of organizational knowledge creation with data collected from 105 Japanese middle managers. The results provide strong support for viewing organizational knowledge creation as a higher-order construct comprised of four knowledge conversion processes: socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization.