... 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...

... economy was threatened with something far worse than global disadvantage, namely global irrelevance (Murdoch, 2001). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Knowledge Economic systems Performance indicators Tacit knowledge Australia In addition “the brain drain”, the exodus of Australia's best...

... 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...

... is to be evaluated with practical case examples. 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...

... of the managers have a long history in the company and successful 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: Knowledge transfer Knowledge management Tacit knowledge Networks Product...

... 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...