... are more volatile, heightening the risk of tacit knowledge loss. Conditions conducive to retaining employees must be created, particularly by prioritizing engagement initiatives. Design/methodology/approach Addressing these imperatives required the adoption of a comprehensive mixed-methods methodology...

... Transformational leadership Innovations Intellectual capital Tacit knowledge Knowledge processes Healthcare industry Higher education IT industry Construction industry Gender studies Intellectual capital (IC) is a central focus of knowledge-driven companies today. It is believed...

...René Schmidt; Robin Bell; Vessela Warren Purpose This research identifies the forms of tacit knowledge frequently requested in the job descriptions of knowledge workers in a multinational automotive manufacturer's product development department. It then explores how and why the most requested...

... between on-park and off-park firms in intellectual capital indicators is also mixed. Intellectual capital Knowledge spillovers Knowledge transfer Licensing income Patents Tacit knowledge Knowledge, creativity and innovation have become increasingly important for those firms that wish...

... indicators Tacit knowledge Australia This view has been reinforced by many leading business people and entrepreneurs. To use an example, media magnate Rupert Murdoch noted, in a recent address, the significance of expenditure on education and the future growth of a knowledge‐based economy (KBE...

... transfer method. Polanyi (1966) has presented the idea of tacit knowledge by expressing that people know more than they can tell. However, earlier tacit knowledge had different names, e.g. practices and cognitive skills (Turner, 1994). Tacit knowledge is knowledge of practices that people have...

... it can be used to further help the development of human capital, as non‐contextual data or information, or sold as a product for profit. An important insight is that the firm need not own something outright in order for it to profit from association. An example of such an intangible tacit knowledge set...

... leadership of projects is dependent on long tenure since the preference is for managers with a generalist competence profile. In the words of one interviewee: © MCB UP Limited 2001 Knowledge transfer Knowledge management Tacit knowledge Networks Product development One...

... of the processes involved tends to regard them as somehow inappropriate or illegitimate, excessively subjective because not open to scrutiny. The repertory grid is a powerful and precise way of making tacit knowledge explicit; moreover, it rests on a detailed and epistemologically convincing theory of knowledge...

... to code knowledge. Internal individual processes like experience and talent obtain tacit knowledge that is difficult to code. Therefore it cannot be managed and shared as explicit knowledge. To rely on personal tacit knowledge is risky. Conversion of tacit knowledge to explicit or at least ability...