As a spread phenomenon, tacit knowledge integration has been attracting more attention because of the embeddedness in social activities and interactions. Our works, as a complement to previous research, investigate tacit knowledge integration based on social networks from transactive memory systems (TMS) perspective. We focus on ties dimension (expressive tie, instrumental tie, and tie strength...

Following an indigenous approach and fairness theory, we develop a theoretical model to investigate when and how authoritarian leadership will improve tacit knowledge sharing (KS). Drawing on survey data from 309 Chinese employees, we examine whether authoritarian leadership will affect procedural fairness (PF) perception and interactional fairness (IF) perception, which in turn, will affect ta...

e-Learning technology today is used primarily to handcraft training courses about carefully selected topics for delivery to employees registered for those courses. Knowledge management technology is used to rapidly capture, organize and deliver large amounts of corporate knowledge. This paper investigates the integration of e-Learning and Knowledge Management technology to improve the capture, ...

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 advances the claim that tacit knowledge has been greatly misunderstood in management studies. Nonaka and Takeuchi’s widely adopted interpretation of tacit knowledge as knowledge awaiting “translation” or “conversion” into explicit knowledge is erroneous: contrary to Polanyi’s argument, it ignores the essential ineffability of tacit knowledge. In the paper I show why the idea of focus...

Tacit knowledge is important asset for organizations. To thrive in today's economy, organizations need to find efficient ways to create and disseminate the tacit knowledge that exists in the knowledge workers. Pair programming, with which two programmers work side by side at the same computer, continuously collaborating on the same software artifact, holds the promise to break the social barrie...

In the course of the liberalization of the European energy markets, the German government opted – diverging from all other European countries – for Negotiated Third-Party Access. In this article we analyze if this institutional regime could theoretically lead to efficient market outcomes. Above that, we empirically review whether certain aspects of the actual implementation, the publication of ...

Does the type of knowledge, and levels of ability and experience needed, depend on rank in managerial accounting? Are the knowledge, ability, and experience needed for managerial accounting success, consistent with the Libby & Luft (L&L) model (1993) of the determinants of judgment performance in accounting? We explore these questions using structural equation models of the performance evaluati...

The importance of tacit knowledge in requirements elicitation and understanding is widely accepted but poorly understood. There is no clear definition of tacit knowledge, with definitions spanning knowledge that cannot be articulated to knowledge that is merely unarticulated. The situation is further confused by the fact that the most widely cited author on tacit knowledge (Michael Polanyi) act...