Mysteries of NIH Syndrome

Takahashi, Nobuo; Inamizu, Nobuyuki

doi:10.7880/abas.11.1

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“…Thomas J. Allen, well-known for his research on communication in R&D organizations (Kuwashima, 2012), coined the term "non-territorial office." His proposed concepts of "gatekeeper" and "NIH syndrome" continue to be widely researched (e.g., Takahashi & Inamizu, 2012).…”

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Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy

Inamizu

2013

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The office research in environmental psychology that was inspired by the non-territorial office experiments of Allen and his colleagues in 1970, and undertaken since the 1980s, deemed privacy in the open office setting problematic; however, experiments by Allen showed improvements in privacy. Why was privacy not seen as a problem in Allen's experiments? The non-territorial office in Allen was not limited to being open; in fact, it also incorporated a free-seating arrangement. Further exploration of Allen's experiments shows that a free-seating arrangement not only enabled employees to move about the office at will but also facilitated the adjustment of their mutual interaction. As a result, it was thought that privacy had actually improved. In other words, extracting an open setting, which is only one aspect of a non-territorial office space, is insufficient, and thus, free-seating arrangement must also be considered. Doing so increases the possibility of significantly remedying privacy problems.

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Section: Allen's Non-territorial Office Experimentsmentioning

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Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy

Inamizu

2013

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“…A famous empirical study of the NIH Syndrome was conducted by Thomas J. Allen, who also experimented with non-territorial offices (Katz & Allen, 1982). However, some have criticized the findings of that study for being arbitrary (Takahashi & Inamizu, 2012 (…”

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Creative workplace behavior

Inamizu

2018

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This study conducted a questionnaire survey (N = 2938) examining the relationship between office behavior and creativity. The analysis showed a positive correlation between creativity and three behavioral characteristics (collaboration, flexibility, and demonstration) in an office environment. However, these correlations vary depending on individuals' personalities. In particular, those with creative personalities cannot augment their creativity if the office does not possess extraordinarily high levels of the three behavioral characteristics as creativity cannot be enhanced very much in an office with only a medium level of these characteristics. At the same time, those who do not have a creative personality can increase their creativity even when they are in an office with a medium level of the three behavioral characteristics. However, turning an office into a place with

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“…5 To improve the performance of the transfirm organization as a whole, local engineers who share implicit market knowledge with local customers could, for example, devise a product concept through effective coordination with technical resources in the home country, which enables them to observe and typical example of the outdated view of the world that firms and organizations are synonymous. 5 Note that the concept of not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome defined by Katz and Allen (1982) differs from the conventional concept (Takahashi & Inamizu, 2012).…”

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Transfirm Organization View

Takahashi

2014

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In modern day Japan, an "organization" often comprises multiple, legally separate firms, although it appears as a single organization to customers and external users and may actually operate as one organization. The concept of an "organization" differs from that of a "firm." The organization is a network or system functioning in practice, whereas the institution of a firm defines the boundary or partitions off a part of the organization by nature. Acknowledging that firms and organizations are different concepts significantly enhances our understanding and conception of the everyday scene of multiple firms functioning as one organization. Theories based on such a way of viewing organizations and firms are called "transfirm organization theories." Theories on keiretsu corporate affiliation or supplier system, architecture-based interfirm specialization, value networks, Japanese industrial agglomeration, and transnational companies are a few examples. Transfirm organizations are created for economic reasons; however, transfirm organization theories are not concerned with the reasons to create transfirm organizations, but rather with the performance of the transfirm organization as a whole.

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Mysteries of NIH Syndrome

Cited by 7 publications

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Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy

Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy

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