...Marianna Judit Süveges; Attila Kurucz Purpose This study reviews recent publications on the informal, experience-based transfer of tacit knowledge within onboarding processes, focusing on the mechanisms, conditions, and barriers influencing this process. It also aims to identify research gaps...

...Dorota Leszczynska; Erick Pruchnicki Purpose A multinational corporation (MNC) looking to locate within a cluster is mainly interested in gaining access to scarce and highly valuable tacit knowledge. The transfer of such resources first requires sharing a certain degree of architectural...

...Mostafa Jafari; Peyman Akhavan; Mozhden Nourizadeh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate employees of an organization in order to evaluate and classify them based on their tacit knowledge. Therefore, in this paper, staff's tacit knowledge is measured at the individual level...

... such that if this changes, so too does the task (Whitley, 1989 , p. 213). Fang Lee Cooke can be contacted at: fang.l.cooke@manchester.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Outsourcing Partnership Tacit knowledge Careers United Kingdom The outsourcing of public sector services...

..., 1967). Tacit knowledge is that knowledge which cannot be explicated fully even by an expert and can be transferred from one person to another only through a long process of apprenticeship (Polany, 1962). Polany’s famous dictum, “We know more than we can tell”, points to the phenomenon in which...