Historical Analysis of Technological Knowledge Creation within An Organization : The Japanese Electric Industry in Pre-world War II

本研究旨在分析二战前一家公司的技术知识创造过程，发现以下事实：(1)毕业于高等教育机构的工程师的职责是创造有关人工制品的量化信息并监督工人。在执行前者时，工程师利用了他们在学校学到的“知道如何”。(2)工人通过工作经验利用技能创造了工程师无法创造的独特的技术信息。(3)工程师和工人在技术知识创造方面处于互补关系。

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.