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...

This paper is a theoretical approach to structure design-specific knowledge into a framework, which can be used within the context of organizational and societal development. We conducted an extensive literature review about existing definitions of design knowledge, and knowledge in general. Based on this, we developed a typology, which consists of four different types of design knowledge and t...

This paper reports 45 laboratory duopoly markets that examine the importance of information sharing in facilitating tacit collusion under conditions of demand uncertainty. Sellers in these repeated laboratory markets generally shared information when possible to reduce their demand uncertainty, which led to output reductions in some demand states. Risk aversion is a likely explanation for this ...

The Theory of Knowledge Creation generally suggests that tacit and explicit knowledge are converted through the four modes known as the SECI Model (Nonaka 1991; Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995). In applications development, the knowledge conversions are mobilized through the use of tools (video conference, development editor) and practices (code review, design patterns, pair programming) (Henninger 1997...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Tacit knowledge exchange Salespeople Marketing success Marketing process innovation Marketing efficiency Marketing effectiveness Social networks Successful organizations adapt their marketing strategies to marketplace changes. Boundary spanners, such as salespeople, because they are able to embed themselves in social networks outside the organization, play a key ...