Revisiting the ‘knowledge Creating Firm’ in the ‘Post-Capitalist Society’ Context

This essay contributes to Dr. Ikujiro Nonaka’s knowledge creation theory and in particular what Peter Ducker termed a theory for a post-capitalist society. The following four sections look back over thirty years from the beginning of the Japan miracle and current management theory as the development of the knowledge creation theory. It concludes with the author’s proposal of ‘purpose engineering’.