A Re-Reading of the Ba Of Ikujiro Nonaka by the School Of Proximity. The Case of a Failure of Knowledge Conversion Between France and China
The concept of Ba proposed by Nonaka and Konno (1998) aims at explaining the basic conditions governing the conversion of knowledge in innovation projects. This concept still suffers from a relative lack of precision that this article seeks to fill. To do this, we propose to use the work of the School of Proximity. We show, thanks to the study of a case of failure of cooperation between French and Chinese health actors, that an inadequately developed Ba is an obstacle to the conversion of knowledge between actors, an obstacle that we analyze here as an absence of proximities. Theoretical enrichments are then proposed, since complementarities between the concepts of proximities and Ba appear.