Both in the US and in Europe, antitrust authorities prohibit merger not only if the merged entity, in and of itself, is no longer sufficiently controlled by competition. The authorities also intervene if, post merger, the market structure has changed such that "tacit collusion" or "coordinated effects" become disturbingly more likely. It seems that antitrust neglects the fact that, for more tha...

In 1908, the eminent British legal scholar F.W. Maitland declared that, “Religious liberty and religious equality are complete.”1 More recent scholarship has suggested that Maitland’s declaration may have been somewhat premature.2 But the last hundred years have witnessed the “demise” of Christianity as the “dominant ideology of our academic discourses.”3 And—at least on the surface—the situati...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to identify and develop an understanding of the aspects of tacit knowledge that play a significant role in enabling organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach – Taking a multi-dimensional approach, this paper moves toward an understanding of tacit knowledge through the lens of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, competency theory and k...

Knowledge in general, and tacit knowledge in particular, has been hailed as an important factor for successful performance in knowledge-worker teams. Despite claim s of the importance o f tacit knowledge, few researchers have studied the concept em pirically, due in part to the confusion surrounding its conceptualisation. The present study examined the acquisition and sharing o f tacit knowledg...

Eric Winer, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Breast Oncology Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses presurgical trials for breast cancer and the roles such trials may eventually play in drug approvals.

This paper addresses the question of whether tacit knowledge can be an important contributory factor in the successful delivery of automation systems. The theoretical part of the paper deals with explicit and tacit knowledge, in particular with the essential nature of tacit knowledge and its manifestation in project activity. After this two related case studies are presented from the metallurgi...

The healthcare enterprise requires a great deal of knowledge to maintain premium efficiency in the delivery of quality healthcare. We employ Knowledge Management based knowledge acquisition strategies to procure 'tacit' healthcare knowledge from experienced healthcare practitioners. Situational, problem-specific Scenarios are proposed as viable knowledge acquisition and representation construct...

How to compromise the best price? A group tacit knowledge-based multicriteria approach Tacit knowledge plays an important role in decision making that is why, in this paper, we propose a group tacit knowledge-based multicriteria approach for decision process. This approach is based on a practical case study in the field of second hand vehicle purchase. This paper proposes ideas and research iss...