Purpose–This study aims to discuss how organizational researchers use the concept of tacit
knowledge. The concept has become a “buzzword” in the last decade and has given rise to …

Within the context of knowledge management, little research has been conducted that
identifies the antecedents of a knowledge‐centered culture—those organizational qualities …

This paper documents the findings from research conducted in late 1998 through 1999 that
studied the exchange and creation of knowledge between two large American high …

Acore tenet of any organizational learning project is that without detecting and correcting
errors in “what we know” and “how we learn,” an organization's knowledge deteriorates …

An optimistic position would hold that knowledge management will follow the same course
as the mastery of capital equipment early in this century (which took the world through the …

In this paper, we draw three knowledge distinctions. The first distinction, borrowed from
Polanyi (1966, 1969), separates tacit from explicit knowledge, and is based on the …

The knowledge-based view of the firm has gained currency in organizational theory since
the 1990s. This paper evaluates it in a historical perspective, and suggests that the new …

Edited by three organizers of the fifth Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities
(OKLC) conference, this book is smartly titled for any reader who wants to know the future of …

Abstract Knowledge management has become something of a cause celebre in the
management literature in recent times. The expropriation of aspects of both eastern and …