Creation Of Tacit Knowledge Research Articles

A servant perspective of leadership and knowledge co-creation process for IT/IS exploration-exploitation innovation in the B2B enterprise context

PurposeThis study aims to build an integrated model for information technology (IT)/information system (IS) team exploration and exploitation innovation in the business-to-business (B2B) enterprise context by empirically investigating the mediating role of tacit-explicit knowledge co-creation and exploring the behavior approach of servant leaders for IT/IS team exploration-exploitation innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors' analysis was supported by 182 enterprise-IT/IS teams (403 participants) in Taiwan. The authors used a questionnaire and Structural Equation Model (SEM)-SmartPLS to validate the development model. This study examines IT/IS exploration-exploitation innovation using a combination of quantitative survey research and qualitative case studies.FindingsThe specific roles of direct and mediating effects for two innovations of IT/IS team exploration and exploitation were investigated. The findings show a direct effect of knowledge creation (tacit and explicit) on IT/IS team exploration-exploitation innovation. Servant leader behavior positively influences tacit-explicit knowledge co-creation practices, IT/IS team exploration and exploitation. Moreover, knowledge creation (tacit and explicit) successfully mediates the correlation between servant leaders and IT/IS team innovations (for exploration and exploitation).Practical implicationsManagers, IT/IS consultants and enterprises at the executive level are suggested to encourage knowledge co-creation practices, both tacit and explicit to support their IT/IS team innovation. The greater the degree of explicit knowledge (i.e. socialization and internalization) and tacit knowledge creation (i.e. externalization and combination), the greater will be the opportunities for meeting the enterprise-IT/IS team exploration and exploitation innovation goals. The project manager may follow servant leadership behavior to promote effective knowledge co-creation process on the IT/IS team.Originality/valueThis effort contributes to greater and new understanding of how ambidexterity capability, tacit-explicit knowledge co-creation (mediators) and servant leaders for IT/IS team exploration-exploitation innovation in the B2B enterprise context and new foundations for future studies on a cross-enterprise IT/IS team. This research is also the first empirical effort to understand how a servant perspective leadership contributes through the knowledge co-creation process for IT/IS exploration-exploitation innovation.

Techniques Applied in Tacit Knowledge Creation for Competitive Advantage in Selected Classified Hotels within Mombasa City County, Kenya

Techniques Applied in Tacit Knowledge Creation for Competitive Advantage in Selected Classified Hotels within Mombasa City County, Kenya

Techniques Applied in Tacit Knowledge Creation for Competitive Advantage in Selected Classified Hotels within Mombasa City County, Kenya

Techniques Applied in Tacit Knowledge Creation for Competitive Advantage in Selected Classified Hotels within Mombasa City County, Kenya

You do not know what you have until it is gone: The importance of face-to-face interactions in local economic development

ABSTRACT To contain the 2019 coronavirus, many localities were placed on lockdown and were required to follow social distancing guidelines implemented by upper-level governments. A consequence of these containment measures was that local practitioners had to conduct economic development remotely, an activity traditionally centered around face-to-face interactions. Thus, this raises the question, how important is face-to-face contact for local economic development? To answer this question, in-depth interviews were conducted with thirty-seven senior management economic development practitioners in the Province of Ontario, Canada from 2019 to 2020. The analysis found that face-to-face contact is highly important for practitioners’ economic development efforts because it, among other things, facilitates the creation and transmission of tacit knowledge between practitioners as well as with businesses, community organizations, and other stakeholders.

Application of Tacit Knowledge Management Styles Towards Sustainability in Selected Classified Hotels in Mombasa City County, Kenya

Tacit knowledge management creates unique products and procedures that differentiate an organization from its competition. This study investigated the adoption of tacit knowledge management styles on competitive advantage in classified hotels. Cross-sectional descriptive survey design was employed with questionnaires, interview Schedules and secondary sources as data collection tools. Target population was 5911 participants involving managers, supervisors, subordinate staff and guests, where a sample of 835 respondents was drawn. The was summarized into themes per specific objectives and descriptive analysis employed on demographic characteristics. Pearson correlation analyses evaluated the relationships between the variables. Multiple regression evaluated moderating variable effect on predictor and dependent variables relationship. The findings indicated a positive significant correlation between tacit knowledge creation and competitive advantage (P=0.0001<0.05). The F-calculated for the two models was higher than the F-critical, where model 1 was F=11.475> 2.45 and model 2 was F=6.247 > 2.18. These models produced strong fits for the study data and hence could be applied in forecasting the moderating effect of organizational factors on the association between tacit knowledge management and competitive advantage. The resulting R-value was 0.927, and further indicated a high correlation degree between the Tacit Knowledge Creation and Competitive Advantage. The resulting R2 (Square) value obtained was 0.859, indicating that the predictors explained 85.9% of Competitive advantage. Therefore, this meant that other elements which were not covered by this research accounted for 14.1%of the competitive advantage matrix. The study recommended that the policy makers propose application of these techniques for competitiveness.

Knowledge creation capability and the impact on innovation performance in global consulting firms: The role of human and social capital

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to identify the relationships between knowledge creation capability and innovation performance in multinational consulting organizations. We introduce two important but conceptually distinct, intellectual attribute constructs—human and social capital—as mechanisms that moderate the relationship. Survey data from 172 professional consultants in subsidiaries of multinational management consulting firms was empirically analyzed. This study confirms the importance of tacit knowledge creation capability for innovation and finds that explicit knowledge creation does not have substantial effects on innovation performance. Human capital has negative moderating effects on how tacit knowledge creation influences innovation performance, but it has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between explicit knowledge creation and innovation. The negative moderating effect of human capital appears stronger in the senior consultant groups. On the other hand, social capital has no moderating effects on knowledge creation capability and innovation. These results provide managerial implications for global subsidiaries' knowledge‐creating capabilities as drivers of successful, innovative change.

Tacit knowledge influence on intellectual capital and innovativeness in the healthcare sector: A cross-country study of Poland and the US

This study provides empirical proof that whole organizational innovativeness is rooted in tacit knowledge due to its potency of human capital creation and, that a learning culture composed of a learning climate and mistakes acceptance component fosters human capital development. The main practical implication is that if the IC components are externally rather than internally determined in the particular organization embedded in the specific healthcare system, human capital's power to create an innovative solution is diminished even if the learning culture is developed. So, practically, private healthcare organizations are more innovative than public. Novelty: This study exposed how tacit knowledge creation driven by learning culture and its mistakes acceptance critical component drives next IC components structure, which influences internal performance innovation in the healthcare sector driven by private and public funds. Findings were obtained from a healthcare industry sample composed of 350 cases from Poland and 365 from the United States. Data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method using Amos and OLS regression using SPSS PROCESS macro.

Impact of Critical Success Factors on Project Success Through the Mediation of Knowledge Creation.

Several factors affect health project success. This research aims to examine the impact of critical success factors on health project success and show how the essential factors of success interact with knowledge creation to impact health project success. The self-administered questionnaire was distributed to collect data from 246 managers, supervisors and zonal supervisors of DHQ hospital Attock and PIMS hospital Islamabad. The analysis was done using Smart PLS to understand the effect of exogenous variables over endogenous variables and the impact of mediating variables between two constructs. The results show that all critical success factors (MGTRF, DRF, CRF, PMRF, CLRF) are significantly affecting project success, in addition, tacit knowledge creation mediate the association between critical success factors and project success. In contrast, explicit knowledge creation does not mediate the relationship between critical success factors and project success. This study intends to expand the theoretical understanding of process improvement by providing practical insights into the impact of strategies used by project managers to develop new knowledge by capturing explicit and implicit information. This study also reinforces past findings and increases awareness about using knowledge creation to gain a competitive advantage in the health sector.

Information Aggregation and Transmission in Network Games

Observing the increasingly important roles played by the creation and transmission of information and tacit knowledge, we construct an information-network model incorporating both information transmitters and information aggregators. Given information-processing roles in aggregation or transmission, we establish various general properties concerning the existence of a network equilibrium, its optimality and the patterns of equilibrium and optimal configuration. We then allow for endogenous choice of the information-processing roles. We prove the existence and show that, with sufficiently small link maintenance costs, the monocentric network with one aggregator connecting to all other agents as transmitters on a tree graph is the unique configuration of equilibrium network. We further characterize an information-processing chain network with all information aggregators and transmitters linked along a chain and compute numerically the ranges of transmission decays and link maintenance costs within which a network equilibrium arises.

Learning Link in Organizational Tacit Knowledge Creation and Dissemination

Knowledge that is not well managed and shared disintegrates easily, especially, tacit knowledge that resides in the mind and is accumulated over time. In the realm of knowledge management processes, knowledge sharing is vital yet probably the most difficult one. Knowledge sharing refers to the transference of knowledge among individuals, groups, teams, departments, and organizations. It is also the building block for the success of the organization as it provides a competitive edge. However, many factors that affect knowledge-sharing behaviors include personal characteristics, characteristics of groups, organizations, trust, culture, etc. Different researchers have identified and explained various antecedents to knowledge-sharing behavior. However, the purpose of this conceptual article is to uncover the issues in knowledge sharing and transfer, particularly investigate the learning link in organizational tacit knowledge creation and dissemination.

Managing individual knowledge creation with demographic faultlines: A case of university laboratories

ABSTRACT Knowledge generated in university laboratories is a crucial resource for enhancing the research performance of universities, the very site for scientific discoveries and technological innovation. Since knowledge is created through interpersonal interactions, the demographic composition of university laboratories is critically linked to knowledge creation by individual researchers and the management of such knowledge creation processes. This research examines the demographic faultlines within university laboratories representing the compositional diversity of laboratory members and their impacts on knowledge creation within the laboratory setting. In particular, we designed a cross-level analysis to examine the relationship between team-level demographic faultlines in university laboratories and individual-level members’ creation of explicit and tacit knowledge. Our results based on a sample of 300 members from 46 labs at a research-oriented university reveal complex relationships among demographic composition, type of knowledge created through laboratory interactions, and other factors. It turns out that demographic faultlines are negatively related to individual explicit knowledge, whereas they show an inverted U-shaped relationship with individual tacit knowledge. Our findings suggest much more contextual impacts of the configuration of laboratory members on individual knowledge creation in university laboratories than studied so far.

"For the services of shipwrights, coopers, and grumettas": Freetown's ship repair cluster in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone.

This article looks at the development of Sierra Leone's ship repair cluster, particularly focusing on the period 1780 to 1860. It argues that several factors contributed to the colony's ability to develop a ship repair cluster. The first was the local environment, which provided both a safe harbor for ships and boats, and local materials that could be used on European and American ships. Secondly, the port's increasing commercial role and its unique position as the site of the Courts of Mixed Commission for the adjudication of condemned slaving ships after the abolition of the slave trade gave ship's carpenters access to a wide and varied range of both customers and supplies. Finally, these material effects were enhanced by the cluster's effect on knowledge spillover and on-the-spot tacit knowledge creation as disruptions in the supply chain, competition with slave traders, and other local circumstances fostered innovation in Freetown's repair cluster.

Integrating risk and knowledge management in human spaceflight programs

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) established the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) in the 2004 timeframe to manage a new portfolio of programs and projects aimed at lunar return. To ensure an effective transfer of knowledge from NASA legacy programs, such as Apollo, International Space Station, and Space Shuttle, ESMD took an integrated approach towards managing risk and knowledge. This case study examines the implementation of ESMD’s integrated risk and knowledge management (IRKM) framework in the 2005-2012 timeframe. An important and novel aspect of this approach was using risk records to identify knowledge gaps and support the creation and transfer of both tacit and explicit knowledge. This explanatory case study describes how the integration of knowledge management and risk management, at both the enterprise and project-level, creates value to both processes and can assist any organization in more effectively pursuing its goals. The case also investigates how coupling these two business processes can garner broader-based organizational support for knowledge management activities. This paper is about enhancing risk management but at the same time it is a front-line investigation of what it takes to successfully implement and sustain a knowledge management enabled learning organization.

Gestão do conhecimento tácito no desenvolvimento de produtos estudo de casos em empresas do setor automobilístico

This research aims to identify the main practices used for the creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge in product development process in automotive industry companies. This descriptive qualitative research was performed by case study. The survey was conducted in two large automobile companies in the ABC Region (Brazil – State of Sao Paulo). The staff managers of product development areas responded to semi-structured interviews script that was composed by a) Company and interviewed profile, b) Practices applied for creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge, and c) Identification of the contributions of creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge. The main practices observed in the two companies for the creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge were very similar, possibly due to the fact that both work in the automotive industry, although the operationalization of these practices assumed distinct features in each one of them. The creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge practices verified were the encouragement of regular courses and specialization, socialization of individuals through regular meetings, study groups, brainstorming, lessons learned, knowledge cafes and constant informal conversations among the employees.

Knowledge Creation Capability and Innovation in Global Consulting Firms

Knowledge creation has been recognized as a core competence for competitive advantage in knowledge intensive organizations. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationships between knowledge creation capability, intellectual capital and innovation in multinational consulting organizations. Survey data of 172 professional consultants from Korean subsidiaries of multinational management consulting firms was collected and empirically analyzed against our hypothesis. The key findings are as follows. Firstly, knowledge creation capability has a significant positive influence on subsidiaries’ innovation. Specifically, tacit knowledge creation has a significant influence on subsidiaries’ innovation, while explicit knowledge creation does not have substantial effects on innovation. Secondly, human capital as intellectual stock has negative moderating effects on how tacit knowledge creation influences innovation, but plays a positive moderating role on the relationship between explicit knowledge creation and innovation. This negative mediating effect of human capital appears stronger in the senior group of employees. On the other hand, social capital has no moderating effects between knowledge creation capability and innovation. This study confirms the importance of knowledge creation capability, particularly the effect of the creation of tacit knowledge creation on innovations by multinational subsidiaries’ in professional service firms. This study also suggests that human capital has adverse effects on the impacts of tacit knowledge creation capability on innovation. These results provide managerial implications for subsidiaries’ knowledge creating capabilities as a driver for successful, innovative change.

Effects of awareness on farmers’ compliance with diffuse pollution mitigation measures: A conditional process modelling

Despite several decades of research and financial commitment, diffuse water pollution remains a major problem threatening the health and resilience of social-ecological systems. New approaches to tackle diffuse pollution emphasise awareness raising and provision of advice with the aim of triggering behavioural change. However, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of this approach remains scarce and mixed, with most studies relying on smaller datasets and case studies. Using one of the largest datasets (N = 1,995) with this information, this study seeks to establish quantitatively the relationship between farmers’ stated awareness of diffuse pollution mitigation measures and their compliance with them, through the analysis of Scotland’s pioneer advice-driven approach. Results from a conditional process modelling suggest awareness might not directly determine compliance but influences it indirectly through the mediating effect of other environmental management practices (in this study reflected in participation in agri-environmental schemes). This mediated relationship appears to be contingent on farm type and location. This would indicate that while public efforts in awareness creation is important, awareness alone is not sufficient to improve compliance; farmers may need to consistently engage in environmental management practices to develop a deeper understanding of the problem and action strategies. In this context, agri-environmental schemes appear to provide an opportunity for the creation of tacit knowledge and understanding of diffuse pollution mitigation measures through experiential learning which may also lead to the creation of new values.

Bloom’s Taxonomy with Respect to Cognition in a Diverse Socio-Economic Classroom

The paper will look at the role of the socio economic influence in the transfer of knowledge and whether it can be used as a negative-positive stimulator in the meta- cognitive process. Through the diverse level of economic disparity that encompasses them we will look at the factors that go into a making a classroom a level playing environment for the diffusion of knowledge. The paper will look at how experience can play a role in the creation of meta cognitive knowledge and the role of teachers as role models by sharing with students and amongst themselves as a pivotal feature in the establishment of positive meta cognitive experiences. The proposed structure would envisage creation of knowledge from ‘bottom- up’ through people via the teacher- student relationship with the entire focus on human- tacit knowledge creation and codification. The scope of the paper is to : 1. Identify potential issues in making a classroom a level playing field for a diverse group of socio-economic students 2. Apply Bloom’s ‘revised’ Taxonomic table with respect to recall, understanding & applying of cognitive processes in the knowledge domain and the human infrastructure and tools required to implement this as a continuous process. The paper will look at evaluating the problem through the framework provided by Bloom’s Taxonomy and analyze its relation through diverse socio economic influences in the classroom. The proposed solution will be based on the analysis of the taxonomic model as well as based on the results from our interviews. The conclusions will provide a significant roadmap in the generation of knowledge through the classroom while attempting to minimize the impact of the socio-economic divides. In addition through the taxonomy we hope to provide knowledge transfer guidelines that will help in the sustainability of the knowledge cycle in the classroom.

Mentoring Emerging Leaders: Perspectives of Mentees on Dispositions and Conditions for Leadership Learning

Although mentoring is believed to improve the craft of beginning principal, the context of collective engagement between mentor and mentee principals that optimize their leadership learning are rarely investigated. This study explored co-creating dispositional values, knowledge conversion modes, and enabling conditions as contexts that favor the creation and transmission of explicit and tacit knowledge for leadership learning for the mentee principal.

Management innovation and firm performance: the mediating effects of tacit and explicit knowledge

This paper examines the role of tacit and explicit knowledge in translating management innovation into firm performance in Japanese companies. While past research has been inconsistent on the role of management innovation on firm performance, this research considers how management innovation in organizations can promote tacit and/or explicit knowledge creation, and whether this leads to higher firm performance. This research uses a questionnaire survey of employees of Japanese firms and applies conditional process analysis. There was no direct effect of management innovation onto firm performance, and that instead, both tacit and explicit knowledge fully mediated the relationship between management innovation and firm performance. While management innovation programs by themselves did not directly increase firm performance, the alignment of these programs with knowledge management initiatives enhanced performance. This highlights the need for management innovation that first considers the type of knowledge needed for enhanced performance. Previous research did not consider the role of knowledge as a means to translate management innovation into firm performance. This paper uncovers the mediating role of knowledge, potentially elucidating past inconclusive results.

Creating Knowledge with and from the Differences: The Required Dialogicality and Dialogical Competences

The main purpose of the current conceptual article is to contribute to theorizing tacit knowledge creation (tacit knowing or knowing), by investigating its primary, foundational, and underlying condition: dialogicality. Drawing from dialogism – an epistemological and ontological framework – and the epistemology of practice, key concepts and approaches were intersected to explain dialogicality in knowing and the competences for crafting and refining it. As the emphasis on knowledge creation in organizational settings has often been on the need of interacting with other individuals to create knowledge – the more the better – the current study centres on a qualitative aspect of such knowing. There has been a de-skilling in creating knowledge with different experts and from their different experiences, and dialogicality is critical to help harnessing the generative and transformative power of such differences in knowing. Moreover, theorizing ‘dialogic’ or ‘dialogical’ knowing has been mostly based on cognitive and structural approaches and transmission models of knowledge communication, and such phenomenon has been limitedly understood in concrete and empirical sense, as knowing by means of face-to-face interactions through talk, verbal interactions with turn-takings, and ‘ideal dialogues’. It is argued the need to go beyond the idea of knowing-through-dialogue to knowing-through-dialogicality. It is claimed that it is not any dialogue that enables knowing with different experts and from their different experiences; such knowing-dialogue needs to be dialogically understood and conceived and for such, dialogicality is a central condition. Based on dialogism, the dialogicality in knowing is explained and four dialogical competences that help crafting and refining such dialogicality are suggested. The study extends and deepens the understanding and role of dialogicality in creating knowledge with and from the differences by analysing its epistemological, meta-theoretical, and ontological assumptions and by proposing its formative competences.