Ikujiro Nonaka

85.6k total citations · 12 hit papers
93 papers, 42.2k citations indexed

About

Ikujiro Nonaka is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Ikujiro Nonaka has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 42.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Strategy and Management, 18 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 10 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Ikujiro Nonaka's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (27 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (10 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (9 papers). Ikujiro Nonaka is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (27 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (10 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (9 papers). Ikujiro Nonaka collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Switzerland. Ikujiro Nonaka's co-authors include Hirotaka Takeuchi, Noboru Konno, Georg von Krogh, Ryoko Toyama, Kazuo Ichijo, Johny K. Johansson, Susan P. Douglas, Sven C. Voelpel, Toshihiro Nishiguchi and David J. Teece and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Marketing and Administrative Science Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Ikujiro Nonaka

88 papers receiving 36.9k citations

Hit Papers

A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation 1985 2026 1998 2012 1994 1995 1996 1998 2000 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
    1994 11.3k citations Ikujiro Nonaka profile →
  2. The Knowledge-Creating Company
    1995 10.3k citations Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi profile →
  3. The knowledge-creating company: How Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation
    1996 3.8k citations Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi profile →
  4. The Concept of “Ba”: Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation
    1998 2.7k citations Ikujiro Nonaka et al. profile →
  5. SECI, Ba and Leadership: a Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation
    2000 2.5k citations Ikujiro Nonaka et al. profile →
  6. Perspective—Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge Conversion: Controversy and Advancement in Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory
    2009 1.2k citations Ikujiro Nonaka, Georg von Krogh profile →
  7. Enabling Knowledge Creation
    2000 834 citations Georg von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo et al. Oxford University Press eBooks profile →
  8. The knowledge-creating theory revisited: knowledge creation as a synthesizing process
    2003 720 citations Ikujiro Nonaka et al. profile →
  9. Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory: Evolutionary Paths and Future Advances
    2006 660 citations Ikujiro Nonaka, Georg von Krogh et al. profile →
  10. A firm as a knowledge-creating entity: a new perspective on the theory of the firm
    2000 653 citations Ikujiro Nonaka Industrial and Corporate Change profile →
  11. Assessing the Impact of Country of Origin on Product Evaluations: A New Methodological Perspective
    1985 556 citations Ikujiro Nonaka et al. profile →
  12. Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge
    2003 524 citations Meinolf Dierkes, Ariane Berthoin Antal et al. Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Peers

Ikujiro Nonaka
Sumantra Ghoshal United Kingdom
Karl E. Weick United States
Ronald S. Burt United States
Dennis A. Gioia United States
Michael L. Tushman United States
Geert Hofstede Netherlands
G. Tomas M. Hult United States
James G. March United States
Jeong Yeon Lee United States
Wanda J. Orlikowski United States
Sumantra Ghoshal United Kingdom
Ikujiro Nonaka
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nonaka, Ikujiro & Ichiro Yamaguchi. (2022). Management by Eidetic Intuition. 2 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro & Ayano Hirose. (2015). Practical Strategy as a Co-Creating Collective Narrative : A Perspective of Organizational Knowledge-Creating Theory. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3. 9–24. 3 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro, et al.. (2014). Phronesis and Quiddity in Management. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro, Mitsuru Kodama, Ayano Hirose, & Florian Kohlbacher. (2013). Dynamic fractal organizations for promoting knowledge-based transformation – A new paradigm for organizational theory. European Management Journal. 32(1). 137–146. 147 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro, et al.. (2011). El líder sabio: cómo los CEO pueden adquirir la sabiduría práctica que les ayude a hacer lo correcto para sus empresas y la sociedad. Harvard business review. 89(4). 18–28. 1 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro. (2008). Firma kreująca wiedzę. Problemy Jakości. 40(8). 9–11. 1 indexed citations
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Dierkes, Meinolf, Ariane Berthoin Antal, John Child, & Ikujiro Nonaka. (2003). Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge. Oxford University Press eBooks. 524 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nonaka, Ikujiro. (2002). A firm as a dialectical being: towards a dynamic theory of a firm. Industrial and Corporate Change. 11(5). 995–1009. 218 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro & Toshihiro Nishiguchi. (2001). Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation. OUP Catalogue. 216 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro & David J. Teece. (2001). Managing Industrial Knowledge: Creation, Transfer and Utilization. 274 indexed citations
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Krogh, Georg von, Ikujiro Nonaka, & Kazuo Ichijo. (2000). Enabling Knowledge Creation: New Tools for Unlocking the Mysteries of Tacit Understanding. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9(4). 461–74, ix. 57 indexed citations
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Reinmoeller, Patrick, Ikujiro Nonaka, & Dai Senoo. (1999). El "ART" del conocimiento: sistemas para rentabilizar el conocimiento del mercado. Harvard-Deusto business review. 6–21. 5 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro, Tim Ray, & Katsuhiro Umemoto. (1998). Japanese Organizational Knowledge Creation in Anglo-American Environments. Prometheus. 16(4). 16 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro, et al.. (1997). La connaissance créatrice : la dynamique de l'entreprise apprenante. Management Science. 45 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro & Martín Kenney. (1995). Towards a new theory of innovation management. IEEE Engineering Management Review. 23(2). 2–9. 6 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro. (1995). IN Serch of the Twenty-first Century Company Model I New Models for the 21st Century--Managing the Knowledge-Creating Company. 43(1). 1–7.
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Nonaka, Ikujiro. (1988). Toward Middle-Up-Down Management: Accelerating Information Creation. 29. 9–18. 315 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro. (1988). Originality of Japanese Management: Organizational Creation of Information. 36(2). 1–13.
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Takeuchi, Hirotaka & Ikujiro Nonaka. (1987). El nuevo proceso de desarrollo de nuevos productos. Harvard-Deusto business review. 23–36. 1 indexed citations
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Nonaka, Ikujiro, et al.. (1984). STRATEGIC ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENT - JAPANESE AND UNITED-STATES FIRMS COMPARED. 12(2). 33–80. 1 indexed citations

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