Abstract
In this research, we investigated how individual factors as enabling conditions for organizational knowledge creation, especially autonomy and commitment to organizational goal, enhance knowledge creation process using quantitatively empirical analysis. From the data set of company-wide questionnaire within a Japanese industrial machine manufacturing company, both of the individual factors positively affected knowledge creation process. By dividing into four modes of knowledge conversion, the individual factors showed different effects in each knowledge conversion mode. In consideration of an interaction effect between autonomy and goal commitment, we indicated a need of follow-up on their individual factors in the whole processes.
