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

Sanetake Nagayoshi*, Jun Nakamura

*Corresponding author for this work

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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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCommunications in Computer and Information Science
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages80-93
    Number of pages14
    Volume540
    ISBN (Print)9783662483183
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    Event2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, MISNC 2015 - Matsuyama, Japan
    Duration: 2015 Sept 12015 Sept 3

    Publication series

    NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
    Volume540
    ISSN (Print)18650929

    Other

    Other2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, MISNC 2015
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityMatsuyama
    Period15/9/115/9/3

    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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