2017
DOI: 10.1108/jsma-02-2016-0016
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Importance of tacit knowledge in incremental innovation

Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of tacit knowledge in incremental innovation, which has hitherto been neglected. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative case analysis was used to focus on two large Japanese pharmaceutical companies’ development of new antihypertensive drugs. The study uses interview data and documentary research materials to explore the knowledge bases of the companies’ research teams as they refined an existing drug to produce new products – a process of incremental… Show more

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“…The knowledge of individual teachers and schools becomes intellectual capital which quickly becomes a new icon that illustrates the economic value of a school. This is the new ro, 2016 ; Norwich et al, 2016;Hodgins & Dadich, 2017;Balde et al, 2018;Okuyama, 2017;Huang et al, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…The knowledge of individual teachers and schools becomes intellectual capital which quickly becomes a new icon that illustrates the economic value of a school. This is the new ro, 2016 ; Norwich et al, 2016;Hodgins & Dadich, 2017;Balde et al, 2018;Okuyama, 2017;Huang et al, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…The employees' disposition to donate and collect explicit and tacit knowledge allows them to learn new thinks and to use what they have learned in refining existing products, services and process or in producing new products, services and processes, thereby contributing to exploitative and exploratory innovations (Curado et al, 2017). In particular, many studies indicated that explicit KS is linked to incremental innovation (Okuyama, 2017;Berraies et al, 2015). Ben Rejeb et al (2020) demonstrated the strategic role of board of directors in balancing between exploratory and exploitative innovations thanks to the directors' expertise and tacit knowledge.…”
Section: Mediating Role Of Knowledge Sharing Between Distributed Leadership and Exploitative And Exploratory Innovationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study was further in conformance with a previous study conducted by Costa and Monteiro (2016), who found out that knowledge sharing played a significant role in fostering innovation. Additionally, case studies conducted by Okuyama (2017) on two Japanese pharmaceutical companies also highlight that both explicit and tacit knowledge work in tandem for incremental innovation processes.…”
Section: Discussing the Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%