Valuable human and knowledge resources will be wasted unless organisations make better use of these prime resources. Tacit knowledge in particular is still considered to be relatively unexplored and proper understanding and management of this resource is of immense importance for better organisational performance. The research addresses the importance of people factor and tacit knowledge in con...

Purpose – This study aims to explore the impact of affect-based and cognition-based trust of co-workers on the willingness of professionals to share and use tacit knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – The relationships were examined through data provided by a sample of 202 professionals and managers in world headquarters of an international organization. Findings – The levels of both types o...

Knowledge acquisition is a key phase in construction of expert systems. This process is very much dependent on the nature of the domain knowledge. In particular, knowledge acquisition is a tedious task when modeling domains with tacit knowledge. Despite fuzzy logic has been used for knowledge acquisition in such domains, a large portion of the process is manually operated. This paper presents a...

This paper discusses the meaning and characteristics of core competence, analyzes the relationships between tacit knowledge and core competence, and gets the conclusion that tacit knowledge is the basis for the development of core competence. At last methods that can transfer tacit knowledge into core competence are discussed.

Abstract Manufacturers migrate their processes to Industry 4.0, which includes new technologies for improving productivity and efficiency of operations. One the issues is capturing, recreating, documenting tacit knowledge aging workers. However, there are no systematic procedures incorporate this into Enterprise Resource Planning systems maintain a competitive advantage. This paper describes so...

a r t i c l e i n f o Tacit knowledge affects the trade-off between entrepreneurship and technology transfer. I present a formal model in which an inventor and the existing firm engage in a strategic innovation game by choosing whether to compete or to cooperate through technology transfer. The model highlights how the problem of tacit knowledge affects the inventor's R&D investment and the exi...

Knowledge is the essential source of enterprise competitive predominance. As the changes of the enterprise environment, the multinational corporation will pay more attention to the effective flow of knowledge and internal integration. But the cross-border transfer of the knowledge has many obstacles, especially the tacit knowledge sharing. As viewed from the tacit knowledge characteristic, it i...