Despite the general findings that address the positive contribution of teaching pragmatic features to interlanguage pragmatic development, the question as to the most effective method is far from being resolved. Moreover, the potential of literature as a means of introducing learners into the social practices and norms of the target culture, which underlie the pragmatic competence, has not been...

Businesses are increasingly "nding themselves in a world characterized by globalization, turbulence and complexity, paralleled with an exponential advancement in information technology (IT). Although empirical evidence indicates a lack of support for the positive economic impact of IT, we have seen that companies increasingly invest in the new technology. As this technology is limited to the tr...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to identify and develop an understanding of the aspects of tacit knowledge that play a significant role in enabling organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach – Taking a multi-dimensional approach, this paper moves toward an understanding of tacit knowledge through the lens of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, competency theory and k...

The scientific basis of surgery, derived through observation and experiment, does not fully account for surgical expertise gained experience. evidence that supports practice is limited, elusive, subject to bias. Surgical judgment requires only explicit, fact-based, knowledge but also tacit forms understanding are easily teachable or testable.

Tacit knowledge plays an important role in decision making that is why, in this paper, we introduce a new approach based on tacit knowledge for decision process. Our approach is based on a practical case study in the field of second hand vehicle purchase. This paper proposes ideas and research issues on how to tackle tacit knowledge for decision process with cost-benefit and multicriteria analy...

We examine the economics literature on tacit collusion in oligopoly markets and take steps toward clarifying the relation between economists’ analysis of tacit collusion and those in the legal literature. We provide an example to motivate the idea that collusive profits can be achieved via tacit coordination in an environment where there is a unique, salient way for colluders to maximize and di...

Much knowledge in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is experience-based and tacit. Nevertheless, the typical strategy for knowledge management is focused on computer-based approaches for capturing and disseminating explicit knowledge. AEC firms have been successful at collecting and storing explicit information in enterprise databases, but they are poor at knowledge ...

Corporate Knowledge Management has to be accessed by its contribution to business objectives. Thus KM activities have to focus on "knowledge in action", which leads to decisions and activities. Knowledge in action becomes reality in the interaction of explicit and tacit elements. All KM initiatives have to refer to this interaction as basical logic of knowledge processes. But business objective...