Organization learning from failure through knowledge network: Case study on an engineering company in Japan

Sanetake Nagayoshi; Jun Nakamura

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48319-0_7

Organization learning from failure through knowledge network: Case study on an engineering company in Japan

Sanetake Nagayoshi, Jun Nakamura

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Abstract

Making an attempt for new business and innovation to seek better performance is an essential matter for company to keep sustainable growth. Learning from failure is one of the ways to seek better performance, but it is extraordinarily rare for organizations to do it well. This paper reported a successful case study in Sangikyo Corporation in Japan. Since they succeeded in establishing a way to learn from failure, they had accumulated 41 failure case studies and lessons learned from the failures since 2005. In addition, they eventually earned thirty-five fold profits more over the past six years. In this paper, authors explored success factors for organizational learning from failure based on the case in Sangikyo Corporation, from points of willingness to serve, common purpose and communication. This paper however, just showed preliminary hypotheses for further research, and it is necessary to carefully examine them for being concrete hypotheses beyond this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	80-93
Number of pages	14
Volume	540
ISBN (Print)	9783662483183
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48319-0_7
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, MISNC 2015 - Matsuyama, Japan Duration: 2015 Sep 1 → 2015 Sep 3

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	540
ISSN (Print)	18650929

Other

Other	2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, MISNC 2015
Country	Japan
City	Matsuyama
Period	15/9/1 → 15/9/3

Keywords

Common purpose
Communication
Knowledge sharing platform
Organization learning from failure
Success factor
Willingness to serve

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science(all)

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Organization learning from failure through knowledge network : Case study on an engineering company in Japan. / Nagayoshi, Sanetake; Nakamura, Jun.

Communications in Computer and Information Science. Vol. 540 Springer Verlag, 2015. p. 80-93 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 540).

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Nagayoshi, S & Nakamura, J 2015, Organization learning from failure through knowledge network: Case study on an engineering company in Japan. in Communications in Computer and Information Science. vol. 540, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 540, Springer Verlag, pp. 80-93, 2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, MISNC 2015, Matsuyama, Japan, 15/9/1. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48319-0_7

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