... 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...

.... This exploration is needed because tacit and explicit knowledge forms are created differently across the organization, which might affect IC. Specifically, this study aims to expose how informal processes of tacit knowledge and formal processes of explicit knowledge influence each component of IC. Both tacit...

...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...

... of technological capital amongst SCPs tenant firms. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Intellectual capital Knowledge spillovers Knowledge transfer Licensing income Patents Tacit knowledge In accordance with its principles and academic missions (Link and Scott, 2003 ; Sterckx, 2011...

... overall performance as a KBE. These benchmark measures have many weaknesses and a research agenda should focus on not only reporting these measures but also identifying new measures to monitor the performance of KBEs. Knowledge Economic systems Performance indicators Tacit knowledge Australia...

... is necessary for a practical and profitable means of developing value in the concept of intellectual capital. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Intellectual capital Human resource utilization Tacit knowledge The woman in the aforementioned anecdote was eventually asked to return and “rescind her buy‐out...

... of information – and the expertise cycle is a valuable method to achieve this goal. Owing to the nature of expertise as a special category of tacit knowledge, which is enhanced and used to innovate by testing the suitability of new ideas or existing ideas to new situations, describing and sharing the knowledge...

... this comparative case study. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Knowledge transfer Knowledge management Tacit knowledge Networks Product development One of the central insights of Lyotard’s (1984) The Postmodern Condition is that knowledge in computerized societies is becoming “exteriorised...

... 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...