ABSTRACT
Ikujiro Nonaka is a Japanese organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of the Hitotsubashi University. He is best known for his study of knowledge management. Nonaka recognized that society had evolved into a "knowledge society". The emerged focal question is a natural outcome of prior discussions on knowledge processing and, in particular, how companies can operate with information more efficiently. Nevertheless, what makes Nonaka's work stand out is the shift of the focus away from knowledge as an input to organizations, into knowledge as an output from organizations. The focus of Nonaka's "A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation" is on knowledge development and utilization in an organizational context. The work was introduced at a time when society had evolved into a "knowledge society". Therefore, despite some criticism, Nonaka's positive influence on the development of the contemporary organizational learning field remains undisputable.
