2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Historical Analysis of Technological Knowledge Creation within An Organization : The Japanese Electric Industry in Pre-world War II
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21730282
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Okayama Shoka University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 技術的知識 / 技術系職員 / 工員 / 相互作用 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims to analyze the technological knowledge-creation process within a firm in Pre-world War II and finds the following facts.(1) The duties of engineers, who graduated from higher education institution, were to create quantitative information about artifact and to supervise workers. In their performing the former, engineers made use of"knowing how"they had learned at school.(2) Workers, using skills through experience on the job, created unique technological information that engineers could not do.(3) Engineers and workers were in a complementary relation for technological knowledge creation.
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Research Products
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