Antecedents are prior-based knowledge (knowledge stocks and knowledge flows) and communication. Studies involve a firm's innovation performance, aspiration level, and organizational learning. It has been said that in order to be innovative an organization should develop its absorptive capacity.
The first NBA player of Japanese descent was Wataru Misaka. A 5-7 Japanese-American guard [who] was born in Ogden, Utah, Misaka attended Weber Junior College (now Weber State University), and was drafted by the New York Knicks in 1947. He played in three games in the 1947-48 season before being cut. Tabuse also has a Utah connection of sorts.
The next move Japan made was one that seemed to serve two purposes. Coach Norio Sasaki substituted 36-year-old Sawa -- the star figure from the 2011 Women's World Cup win that has made her a talismanic figure in Japan -- defender for Azusa Iwashimizu.