Tacit knowledge as a promoter of project success
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This paper addresses the question of whether tacit knowledge can be an important contributory factor in the successful delivery of automation systems. The theoretical part of the paper deals with explicit and tacit knowledge, in particular with the essential nature of tacit knowledge and its manifestation in project activity. After this two related case studies are presented from the metallurgical industry. In the "rst case, the lack of tacit knowledge was an obvious reason for the poor economic performance of the project; in the second case, the value of tacit knowledge in the success of the project was probably signi"cant. ( 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All
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