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Japanese Company Histories as Repositories of Tacit Knowledge

Shashi: the Journal of Japanese Business and Company History

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Title Japanese Company Histories as Repositories of Tacit Knowledge
 
Creator Donovan, Maureen
 
Subject Ecomic history: Japanese company history
Shashi: Japanese Company History
 
Description A special issue commemorating 115 years of its publication of Shūkan Tōyō Keizai, devoted its cover story, comprising some 45 pages, to a survey of other Japanese companies that had passed the one hundred year milestone. Kunisada Fumitaka advises readers to seek the kind of tacit knowledge needed to revive Japanese economic engines by reading histories of successful companies that survived for more than a century,  “Company histories are treasure troves of business knowledge for turning point eras, such as the present. Read them!!” The appendices of shashi are rich in statistics, but the narrative portions of the books have their own value as primary sources as well. A well-known limitation of shashi is that the stories they tell are self- serving, extolling the feats of their founders and achievements over the years without any criticism. Those narratives can be used to derive insights into the past. Perhaps they can also be a stimulus for imagining the future.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
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Date 2016-05-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://shashi.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/shashi/article/view/31
10.5195/shashi.2016.31
 
Source Shashi: the Journal of Japanese Business and Company History; Vol 4, No 1 (2016): Shashi-Resource Issue
社史：日本経営史学雑誌; Vol 4, No 1 (2016): Shashi-Resource Issue
2169-0820
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://shashi.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/shashi/article/view/31/124
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Maureen Donovan
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