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Organization Learning from Failure Through Knowledge Network: Case Study on an Engineering Company in Japan

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Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research (MISNC 2015)

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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.

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  1. Research Institute of the Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University, Takada Bokusha Bldg. 4F, 1-101, Totstuka-machi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0071, Japan

    Sanetake Nagayoshi

  2. Graduate Program in Business Architecture, Research Center for Social and Industrial Management Systems, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, 7-1, Ohgigaoka, Nonoichi, Ishikawa, 921-8501, Japan

    Jun Nakamura

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  1. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Leon Wang

  2. Matsuyama University, Matsuyama, Japan

    Shiro Uesugi

  3. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

  4. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Koji Okuhara

  5. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Kai Wang

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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: Wang, L., Uesugi, S., Ting, IH., Okuhara, K., Wang, K. (eds) Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research. MISNC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 540. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48319-0_7

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