Bunkyo University Faculty of Information and Communications
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This article addresses the dynamics in the knowledge creation process, taking the case of a new product development by a Japanese machinery manufacturing company. This study focuses on internal psychological safety in communication and trust-based relationships with customer and aims to discuss how companies acquires the tacit knowledge of the customer and transforms the individual’s knowledge into the organization’s knowledge. In product development in new areas, re-creation of a common basis for discussions and relationships with customers is significant, even if a company has a long-standing relationship of trust with its customers or has a culture of open discussion.