... with cognitive style. Explicit knowledge is a knowledge type requiring more formal structure, while tacit knowledge is a knowledge type that is more informal in nature (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995 ; Polanyi, 1967). Because adaption‐innovation theory directly addresses an individual's preference toward formal...

... Tacit knowledge Intuition Ever since Thomas Paine used the words Common Sense in the title of his famous tract that stimulated the movement to the declaration of independence, we think we know when someone uses common sense. Do we? Know is too strong a word. Maybe we can sense it most...

... individual knowledge, organizational knowledge can be described as mostly tacit (Inkpen and Dinur, 1998), whereby (completely) tacit knowledge can be defined as knowledge that cannot be verbalized or formalized (Polanyi, 1959). No individual can grasp and explain the overarching organizational knowledge...

... decades nearly all of Polanyi’s thinking and elaboration of tacit knowledge. This paper also examines Barnard’s and Simon’s differing views on intuition and provides a brief overview of contemporary research on intuition in managerial decision making. Barnard acknowledged the essential role of logic...