Knowledge and management of such knowledge have been studied for some time now as it became clear that a company with an unstructured approach to corporate knowledge management was incapable of competing in this new environment. As such, management of intangible assets, such as knowledge, came to be perceived as an important tool for competition. Based on that, this article aims to identify the...

This paper examines effects of tacit and codified knowledge on performance improvement as organizations gain experience with a new technology. We draw from knowledge management and learning curve research to predict improvement rate heterogeneity across organizations. We first note that the same technology can present opportunities for improvement along more than one dimension, such as efficien...

In this chapter knowledge management is considered from a process-oriented point of view, instead of a resource point of view. Managing knowledge is therefore something more than collecting, storing, ordering and disseminating information and documents: it regards all the processes through which human beings create new (tacit and/or explicit) knowledge transforming the existing (tacit and/or ex...

Highly differentiated work procedures require stakeholders to share knowledge within and between communities. In the course of knowledge sharing, not only explicit knowledge has to be communicated, but also tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge cannot be exchanged by traditional means, such as language. For externalization of tacit knowledge we currently face a lack of accurate method support. We in...

a growing awareness that tacit knowledge makes up a substantial proportion of this vital knowledge— perhaps as much as 80%. Th e imperative to manage tacit knowledge more eff ectively has become more pressing in recent times—as experienced 'baby-boomers' retire, as clients increasingly present novel problems (for which 'cookbook answers' are both inappropriate and unavailable), and as market cy...

With the coming of knowledge economy era, The traditional product design knowledge can not fully meet the user’s demands for products. Improving the design quality of the product is the primary way to maximize the benefits, and the product conceptual design directly determines the quality of product design, The users’ tacit knowledge is the source of the product conceptual design, therefore, th...

Tacit knowledge sharing (TKS) is important to improve the teaching skill and researching knowledge of university teachers. In this paper, the tacit knowledge sharing of university teachers is catalogued as four modes from perspectives of the psychological risk and psychological value which are measured by two grades – high and low. The four modes are named “Peer-review”, “Learning Community”, “...