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...

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...

Abstract A structured conceptualization method, concept mapping, is applied to visualize the conceptual domain of explicit and tacit quality linkages in a complex, causally ambiguous production system premium automotive OEM. Experts, intimately familiar with all facets domain, defined sources problems rated their impact on product quality. These inputs, formative measures for latent construct, ...

This study examines tacit knowledge sharing in enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. There is often a large gap in knowledge among ERP implementation personnel because of ERP’s cross-functional nature. An underlying assumption of knowledge sharing is that individuals can share the knowledge they have. Although this is a valid assumption for explicit knowledge that can readily be ex...

Explicit knowledge is knowledge that the knower can make explicit by means of a verbal statement; implicit knowledge is knowledge that is not explicit. Chomskyan tacit knowledge of rules can be understood as requiring a particular structure in the content-involving explanations of transitions between internal representations. States of tacit knowledge are different from beliefs and states of ex...