Knowledge Management in Agricultural Succession
Knowledge Management in Agricultural Succession
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农业演替中的知识管理
DOI:
10.2457/srs.41.943
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
L. Kiminami
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作者:
Toshinari Souma;L. Kiminami
Today the situation of agriculture in Japan is extremely severe. The ratio of 65 - year - old or older basic agricultural workers reached 57.4% in 2005, and these people are expected to enter retirement in the near future. Therefore, studies on the management of the succession of Japanese agriculture is a pressing issue. On the other hand, existing research on succession management has chiefly targeted the succession of tangible assets, especially farmland. However, not only tangible assets such as farmland but also intangible assets should be included in the management properties of succession. Moreover, succession management is thought to be able to create new knowledge for the successors by converting and moving the manager’s intangible assets to the employees. In addition, the concept of “ ba ” as place of knowledge creation is also important for the management of succession. In this paper we first clarify the problems for the management of succession in Japanese agriculture using the FFS theory ( Five Factors and Stress Theory ) , and second discuss the importance of “ ba ” in the knowledge management of agricultural succession using the SECI model. Classification Q10 Abstract In the present study, both the importance of intangible asset succession and “ ba ” as the place of knowledge creation in succession management of agriculture were clarified through the analy-sis of two cases where the management of succession became a problem and where the management of succession to the third party has succeeded in a short term. However, when the intangible assets are passed on to the employee, not only the skills are transmitted, but also the manager should transmit the corporate principles at the same time. This is possible through the formation of “ ba ” and changing the organization into an institution of study. Therefore, the formation of “ ba ” for study becomes a first step in the personnel training as a manager. Nevertheless, there are three problems left in the present study. First is the method for extracting tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge must be extracted from concrete work of each administrative function and verified because both explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge exist in each administrative function. Second is the classification of tacit knowledge because there are two kinds of tacit knowledge, one converted from tacit to tacit and the other converted from tacit to explicit. Third is clarification of the influence that industrial clusters have on the management of succession in agriculture. Generally, cluster formation is expected to be advantageous for securing various talents. Therefore, whether a cluster for securing a successor of farm management can be obtained must be verified. These are important research topics for the future.