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Boundaries knowledge (knowing)—A source of business innovation
Author(s) -
Kodama Mitsuru
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
knowledge and process management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-1441
pISSN - 1092-4604
DOI - 10.1002/kpm.1603
Subject(s) - knowledge management , perception , phronesis , tacit knowledge , knowledge creation , creativity , quality (philosophy) , action (physics) , knowledge value chain , business , computer science , organizational learning , psychology , epistemology , marketing , social psychology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , downstream (manufacturing)
This paper focuses on knowledge differences that occur between people and organizations, and various “dissimilar things,” and presents the concept of “boundaries knowledge” or “boundaries knowing” that arises from the awareness, perception, and discovery by people and organizations of such differences. Then, through in‐depth case studies, the paper identifies the impacts that the quality of boundaries knowledge and boundaries knowing has on the creativity and innovation of people and organizations. Moreover, the paper shows that “boundaries knowledge (knowing)” is a strategic thinking and action that provides optimized creations, solutions, and processes for new knowledge creation such as strategy creation and execution as personal, organizational, or corporate targets, or solutions for problems and issues faced, as “the fourth knowledge” continuing from tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, and phronesis.