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| Title: | | Mapping the tacit component: Getting away from knowledge conversion  |
| Authors: | | Jones, Barbara Miller, Bob |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Manchester Business School working paper 577 |
| Abstract: | | This paper argues for a radical new understanding of the topic generally referred to as Tacit Knowledge. On the basis of a new appraisal of the work of Michael Polanyi, we argue that mapping, assessing, fostering, developing, and improving the tacit component in all use of skill and knowledge is more important for management than converting 'tacit knowledge' into anything else. We also argue that attention to the tacit component is especially relevant to the diffusion of skills and knowledge related to new technologies, products, and processes. Finally we also argue that it should not be taken for granted that the tacit component actually existing in any activity is optimal. We suggest that the individual competency is the only level on which the presence or lack of the necessary tacit component can be mapped. |
| Subjects: | | Helmholtz Polanyi Reber Nonaka gestalt tacit knowledge tacit component implicit learning heuristic routine competency |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Manchester Business School Working Paper Series, The University of Manchester
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