Research in the field of knowledge management seems to be split between two different types of knowledge: explicit, codified, articulated, and formalized knowledge; and tacit uncodified, socially constructed knowledge. There has been little research looking at the boundary/intersection between these two types, despite the impact they have on each other. The proposed study seeks to articulate th...

Academics and practitioners have stressed the significance of managing knowledge in today’s competitive environment. This has resulted in many efforts to increase knowledge exchange between organizational members. Much work so far has focused on the use of information technology as either a solution or enabler of knowledge management. While information technology enables easy exchange of explic...

organizational knowledge creation theory of innovation and knowledge creation in organizations, tacit and explicit knowledge sharing. seci and knowledge will be a four-step process explains how to use the new organization was created. this theory of the coversion process from tacit knowledge to explicit and viceversa based on the idealism agent. ontological view of the theory is numynalysty and...

purpose: the aim of this study is to analyze the theoretical foundations, the concept, documentation history, steps and the procedure of documentation of knowledge on the basis of life cycle of organizational knowledge and the introduction of automatic and semi-automatic operational strategies of the extraction of tacit knowledge and coding or the representation of explicit knowledge. methodolo...

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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...

This research focuses on relational and contractual mechanisms and examines their impact on foreign subsidiaries’ acquisition of tacit and explicit knowledge from local suppliers. Using survey data from 168 foreign subsidiaries operating in China, this study finds broad support for the proposed analytical framework. When the foreign subsidiary and supplier share common goals, the foreign subsid...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of tacit knowledge within innovative organizations. It addresses what organizations can do to promote knowledge sharing in order to improve successful innovation. Compared to available research material on explicit knowledge, the use of tacit knowledge within companies is relatively unexplored. The use of tacit knowledge is assessed with...

This paper explores the notion that tacit knowledge can be converted to explicit knowledge, by examining the philosophical concept of qualia. Qualia is suggested to be a type of tacit knowledge that cannot be made explicit, whether or not one subscribes to the belief that qualia also represents a non-physical mental property. Given that qualia shows that there exists at least one type of knowle...