ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the northern realm positions 'open and transparent knowledge creation' as one of the principles of Integral Development. It reviews the second organisational level of Integral Development from a 'Northern' perspective, with a particular emphasis on complex social systems and organisational knowledge creation. In purposefully linking the prior chapter on individual learning and research with this chapter on organisational knowledge creation, it has bridged the divide not only between self and enterprise but also between academe and industry. The chapter turns from individual learning and research to organisational knowledge creation. Over the course of the last two decades there has been much talk of the 'Knowledge Society' if not also of the 'Knowledge Economy' and indeed of 'Knowledge Management'. Organisations play a most important role in societal knowledge creation. The Japanese organisational sociologists Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, that both Professors Emeritus from Tokyo's eminent Hitotsubashi University are among the best-known scientists in area of organisational knowledge management.
