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J. Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, England
Everyone in an organization, from cleaner to CEO, has expert knowledge. Yet only a fraction of it can be codified and expressed explicitly as facts and rules. A little more is visible implicitly as accepted procedures, but even this is only the...
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Everyone in an organization, from cleaner to CEO, has expert knowledge. Yet only a fraction of it can be codified and expressed explicitly as facts and rules. A little more is visible implicitly as accepted procedures, but even this is only the beginning. Submerged beneath the explicit and implicit levels is a vast iceberg of tacit knowledge that cannot be reliably accessed by traditional analytical approaches. And yet, without it, organizational learning means little. Interweaving theory with practical guidance, this book looks at the importance of tacit knowledge and shows how it is now bein
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Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART 1 DIALOGUE AND SKILL; Chapter 1 The Practice of the Use of Computers: A Paradoxical Encounter between Different Traditions of Knowledge; Chapter 2 Writing as a Method of Reflection; Chapter 3 The Dialogue Seminar as a Foundation for Research on Skill; Chapter 4 The Methodology of the Dialogue Seminar; PART 2 THEATRE AND WORK; Chapter 5 A Dwelling Place for Past and Living Voices, Passions and Characters; Chapter 6 Theatre and Knowledge; PART 3 CASE STUDIES
Chapter 7 Dialogue Seminar as a Tool: Experience from Combitech SystemsChapter 8 Maximum Complexity; Chapter 9 Better Systems Engineering with Dialogue; Chapter 10 Some Aspects of Military Practices and Officers' Professional Skills; Chapter 11 Science and Art; PART 4 DIALOGUE SEMINAR AS REFLECTIVE PRACTICE; Chapter 12 Tacit Knowledge and Risks; Chapter 13 Skill, Storytelling and Language: on Reflection as a Method; Chapter 14 Reading and Writing as Performing Arts: at Work; Chapter 15 Knowledge and Reflective Practice
Chapter 16 Dialogue, Depth, and Life Inside Responsive Orders: From External Observation to Participatory UnderstandingPART 5 TACIT KNOWLEDGE AND LITERATURE; Chapter 17 Rule Following, Intransitive Understanding and Tacit Knowledge: An Investigation of the Wittgensteinian Concept of Practice as Regards Tacit Knowing; Chapter 18 Henrik Ibsen: Why We Need Him More Than Ever; PART 6 CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 19 Theatre and Workplace Actors; Chapter 20 Training in Analogical Thinking: The Dialogue Seminar Method in Basic Education, Further Education and Graduate Studies; Index
Tacit knowledge awareness and sharing influence on innovation
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Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk
This study measures the relationship between tacit knowledge and innovation in the Polish and US information technology (IT) industries. Large samples were obtained, allowing quantitative modeling not possible in many tacit knowledge studies focused...
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This study measures the relationship between tacit knowledge and innovation in the Polish and US information technology (IT) industries. Large samples were obtained, allowing quantitative modeling not possible in many tacit knowledge studies focused on more qualitative analysis. Conceptually, the study identifies the potential sources of tacit knowledge (learning-by-doing and/or learning-by-interaction), individual tacit knowledge development leading to a willingness to share, and the consequent correlation to process and/or product/service innovation. The important role of critical thinking as a control variable in tacit knowledge development in individuals is also identified as is the connection of process innovation as a mediator between tacit knowledge sharing and product/service innovation.The model is supported across both samples though with interesting differences across countries, particularly in sources of tacit knowledge (more learn-by-doing in the US), the link between awareness and sharing (stronger in US), and innovation (process as a full mediator in Poland, complementary in the US). The main theoretical contribution is empirical support for tacit knowledge's role in innovation, including the step-by-step details of how everything connectsas well as details on how the model can differ by national context. The managerial implications include the care that must be taken to evaluate national circumstances and their potential impact on a firm's management of tacit knowledge.