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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Tacit and explicit knowledge"”.
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Knowledge management in times of change: Tacit and explicit knowledge transfers.
This study proposed a look at the importance and challenges of knowledge management in times of great change. In order to understand the information phenomena of interest, impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents in times of great organizational change, the study is positioned in a …
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Illuminating and Bridging the Vortex between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge: Counterbalancing Asymmetric Information in High-Value Low-Frequency Transactions
… factors contribute to asymmetric information, and these are especially prevalent in an HVLFT. The two main differentiating characteristics of an HVLFT are the low frequency and the high value associated with this type of transaction. If a transaction has a low frequency, the valuation of the …
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Management for Program Sustainability Amidst Rapid Volunteer Turnover
… organizations that offer volunteer-led programs and are consequently heavily reliant upon those individuals to carry out their missions. Creating a strong institutional memory for both tacit and explicit knowledge and properly managing volunteers are two critical elements in creating the capacity …
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Gestión del conocimiento en la generación de modelos ambientales
… de Gestión del Conocimiento, se representa empleando modelización estructural interpretativa (grafos orientados o digrafos, basados en matrices binarias de relaciones contextuales de causalidad) y redes semánticas o conceptuales (enlaces estructurales funcionales de herencia de atributos entre …
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Knowledge creation and learning through conversation: a longitudinal case study of a design project
This research set out to establish a link between knowledge creation and learning. This was achieved by developing links between types of knowledge and learning styles using insights from experiential learning theory. Recently, the concepts of individuality-relationality, linear and cyclical time …
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Enhancing resilience in South African small and medium enterprises: a dynamic capabilities perspective
The resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets, where they confront persistent institutional challenges, is crucial for their ability to survive and thrive in such complex environments. South Africa contends with many challenges, including institutional voids that …
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Outsourced knowledge: knowledge transfer and strategic implications from design outsourcing
… means to transfer organizational product knowledge; yet, design outsourcing, or the contracting of a supplier to perform the design of a product or product component, has grown in acceptance and practice. Empirical evidence suggests that there are strategic risks for the contracting …
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Knowledge management practices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia public sector organisations
… oil-based growth, KSA is at a transition towards knowledge based economy. Today, achieving that goal has become essential. To address these change challenges, knowledge is increasingly accessed and shared across different functional departments and professionals. This knowledge interdependence …
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The use of information and communication technologies for the support of knowledge management in selected academic libraries in Nigeria and South Africa
Knowledge management (KM) is increasingly important for university library management and information services. Libraries have excelled in the management of explicit/tangible/recorded knowledge for many years, however, not as much in the management of tacit/intangible knowledge which is assumed to …
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Non-technical factors that influence the implementation of a knowledge management system in a parastatal organisation in South Africa
… Revolution (4IR) has influenced all sectors, and workers who accrued their experience over decades are reaching retirement age, it has become imperative in all sectors to access their knowledge, store it, and share it with new employees to avoid such knowledge being lost. Knowledge management …
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Exploration and harnessing of usable knowledge in interpretive participatory research : a case of women in the Zambian mining community
… for better articulation, conceptualisation and implementation of PAR and other grassroots interpretive participatory research approaches. The study examines how tacit and explicit knowledge is explored and harnessed for problem solving, decision-making, planning and innovation, to enhance …
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The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers, Incubators and Accelerator Programmes on the Product Innovation of High-Tech Start-Ups: A Mixed Methods Approach
The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship (KTSE) focuses on exploring how entrepreneurs use uncommercialised knowledge spillovers into funding a new venture. This phenomenon explores the role of geographical proximity on the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities that result in the …
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The role of ICT and human behaviour in the knowledge transfer process among academics
The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) such as the Internet has enabled the provision of education using these technologies so that academic staff, as well as students, can utilise them. The learning facilitated through these technologies, known as e-Learning, is …
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Gestão do conhecimento: uma análise sobre a central de inquéritos policiais do Ministério Público do Estado da Bahia
… na unidade objeto deste estudo de caso, utilizando o instrumento para avaliação da gestão do conhecimento na administração pública, desenvolvido pelo Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), como método para a coleta dados e o diagnóstico do grau de utilização da gestão do conhecimento …