Tacit Research Articles

Tacit Knowledge Mapping for Business Intelligence Analysis

The tacit knowledge in a higher institution, especially in university libraries, contains a series of intuition and inspiration that a librarian arises in exploring solutions to the various problems. Thus, limited sources of knowledge or information is a critical factor in the failure to provide accurate information. The main problem of the BI system is to capture tacit knowledge and use tacit knowledge as one of the data sources for data analysis to enhance the analytic results. The unstructured data can define as tacit knowledge in the form of data and information presented in the Knowledge Management System (KMS), and the cognitive business use both structured and unstructured data with highly sophisticated analytical techniques to identify, evaluate, and recommend a business plan of actions. The idea of being able to capture knowledge from different sources can be very beneficial to the BI system. This paper explored the solution to extracting tacit knowledge from librarians in order to enhance the data sources to be used in the BI by exploring the library's academic services, which use much tacit knowledge for answering questions with the requirement of data analysis as online or offline queries.

Implicit knowledge of words in dogs

Implicit knowledge of words in dogs

The Tricks of Jing (Jing jue 荆決): The Beginnings of jue 決/訣 as an Epistemic Genre

Abstract The Chinese genre of text named jue 訣 dates back to the Han dynasty. It encompassed esoteric Daoist manuals and medical handbooks, translated as “tricks,” “methods,” “instructions,” “secret instructions,” and “rhymes.” This essay translates “tricks” and “secrets” for its early use, referring to “writings” (shu 書) linked to privately transmitted technical information, such as divination tricks, alchemical techniques, or medical recipes. Initially, these writings relied on oral instructions and implicit knowledge (“orally transmitted secrets,” koujue 口訣). By the medieval period, as seen in the Dunhuang manuscripts, the link to exclusive oral instruction had weakened, and the jue genre evolved into “how-to” (hezhi 何知) manuals for quick reference in a broader body of formally transmitted texts, like “canons, scriptures” (jing 經). The jue genre began as rhematic (rather than thematic), specifying techniques or “methods” (fa 法), whether Daoist, medical, or divinatory.

A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis

Abstract Diagnosing a patient on the basis of their pulse alone is an impressive demonstration of medical ability for which early modern Chinese doctors were famous. This article looks at the early history of Chinese medicine in Europe by examining the encounter between Xu Shizhi, who travelled to Naples to study for the Catholic priesthood but became a sensation as a doctor, and Domenico Cirillo, a prominent physician who met him through a patient and became interested in Chinese medicine. Although Chinese pulse manuals had been translated into European languages, the sense of touch is impossible to convey in words, but when Xu met Cirillo, he was able to demonstrate how to feel the pulse. Cirillo then combined elements of Chinese medicine and new vitalist theories of the nervous system to produce a system of his own, published as the Tractatus de pulsibus, which he taught to his students and which became widespread across southern Italy. Recent work on the global circulation of medical ideas in the early modern period has focused on texts and pharmaceuticals, and on encounters in colonial spaces. Xu and Cirillo’s story suggests the importance of personal interactions in conveying tacit knowledge as a key part of this circulation.

Characteristics of Female Technical Colleges and Employment: Do Practical Intelligence and Tacit Knowledge Matter?

Characteristics of Female Technical Colleges and Employment: Do Practical Intelligence and Tacit Knowledge Matter?

The Myth of Agreement

ABSTRACTContemporary ontological constructivism often rests on the belief that social reality emerges from tacit agreements, underpinning mutual expectations and trust. In social theory, the concept of agreement has evolved from explicit social contracts to normative consensus and the idea of tacit knowledge that subtly binds social actors. This article challenges this prevailing approach by dissecting various constructivist positions and exposing the implications of agreement‐based ontological constructivism on our understanding of culture, norms, and society. The author revisits an alternative perspective, claiming that human society is equally a structure of disagreement. Emphasizing disagreement advocates for a realistic social theory and highlights the vital role of fiction in shaping social life.

Exploring young consumer's understanding of local food through proximity and social representations

The ever-changing nature of consumers' understanding of local food highlights the need for in-depth research. This study explores how Gen-Z consumers define, perceive and experience local food. Through the analysis, we extend the existing conceptualization of local food by differentiating three aspects of proximity: geographical, value, and relational proximity. We contribute novel insights into the differentiation of proximity to the established understanding for this specific consumer group. Methodologically, we use a free association game played with Gen-Z consumers in Hungary. Theoretical frameworks, including social representation, central core and proximity theories, are used to uncover implicit knowledge about local food. The results reveal a consumer understanding that associates health, freshness, taste, quality and trustworthiness as the central core of the local food concept. Surprisingly, value and relational proximity gain importance, while geographical proximity takes a peripheral role. This study facilitates a re-evaluation of the local food concept in light of evolving consumer understanding, while also establishing a link between proximity theories and social representation theory. The findings provide practical implications that distinguish different aspects of proximity that are relevant to farmers and policy makers in light of evolving consumer understandings.

Managing knowledge and sustainability in resource constrained disaster environments

AbstractOrganizations use both tangible and intangible resources for their existence to achieve sustainable development goals. Organizational knowledge mainly comprises of tacit knowledge held by employees. It becomes more critical when the situations are unpredictable, for example in rescue/disaster projects involving human lives at risk. Tacit knowledge utilization has been understudied particularly in such environments bounded by resource constraint and sustainability issues. This qualitative research attempts to fill this gap by collecting data from the knowledge workers in a large public sector non‐profit rescue organization. The study reveals various individual level, group level, organizational level, community level, and situational level factors, which impact the tacit knowledge utilization of rescue workers to properly execute emergency life threatening rescue operations and sustainability issues.

Pregnancy care experiences for adults with congenital heart disease in the United States

BackgroundResearch to reduce maternal morbidity due to cardiovascular disease is vitally important in the United States, especially for the growing number of individuals with congenital heart disease (CHD) reaching childbearing age. Understanding patient experiences through patient engagement is critical to designing research that is aligned with the needs of adults with CHD undergoing pregnancy. MethodsThis patient engagement project, grounded in human centered design, focuses on the discovering patient and healthcare provider priorities for reducing maternal morbidity in CHD through patient centered outcomes research (PCOR). In this first stage, a capacity building consortium of over 90 key partners, including patients, advocates, healthcare providers, and researchers, was assembled. Baseline education on patient engagement, PCOR, and survey instrument design was delivered virtually. Two questionnaires were designed to elicit tacit knowledge – one for patients and one for providers – regarding gaps and needs across four key pillars: access to clinical care, patient and provider education, mental health, and research opportunities. The pillars were determined through thematic summaries from consortium discussions. ResultsThe patient questionnaire received 828 responses (age range: 18-60 years) from 48 U.S. states. The provider questionnaire garnered 218 responses from professionals. Several common themes for areas of research were observed across all pillars including improved access to specialized cardio-obstetric care and improved education about the need for specialized care. Healthcare providers cited insufficient care coordination models and resources as a major barrier to providing effective clinical care. Both patients and providers expressed a need for improved access to mental health care. While only 28% of patient respondents who underwent a pregnancy reported a pre-existing mental health diagnosis, nearly 2/3 reported having significant anxiety symptoms related to their pregnancy. Of those with significant symptoms, 44% were unable to access mental health services. Additionally, only 55% of healthcare providers reported referral for assessment and treatment if mental health concerns arose during or after pregnancy. ConclusionThe results provide valuable insights into the unique challenges faced by patients with CHD and their providers during pregnancy. By addressing the identified gaps through PCOR, we can work towards a goal to improve maternal care for women with CHD.

First Ink: the development of a magazine of exemplary academic writing ‘by students, for students’

Exemplars of student work can help demystify the critical, rhetorical, and linguistic expectations that underpin academic writing. Marking criteria, no matter how plainly expressed, are necessarily abstract and so may seem remote—even opaque—to our students. Seeing ‘critical thinking’, ‘breadth of research’, or ‘clear expression’ exemplified in a piece of student writing can make the conceptual concrete. Certainly, research attests to the power of student exemplars in making tacit knowledge about academic writing visible and making disciplinary notions of quality clear (see, for instance, Handley and Williams, 2011; Hendry, Bromberger and Armstrong, 2012; Wingate, 2015; To and Carless, 2016). This paper began by tracing the conceptual evolution of First Ink from its origins in an internal proposal paper in 2014 to the idea of a website that combines the engaging properties of a student magazine with the educational benefits of a learning resource. First Ink 2024 offers a range of first-class undergraduate writing across different genres in the Arts and Humanities. The magazine invites readers to discover the stories behind the writing through author interviews, essay commentaries, podcasts, lecturer advice, and other resources that shed light on the craft of good writing—what it looks like on the page, what inspired it, and how it was put together. Following an account of how the magazine was developed by a staff-student team in the summers of 2022 and 2023, the presentation reflected on several issues related to co-creation, exemplar selection, student engagement, the representation of diverse voices, funding, and sustainability.

The digital preservation of the Padley Mill as both heritage and knowledge

Architecture is a form of tacit knowledge in which ideas can be learnt from the past, and that body of tacit knowledge can be recorded in order to give relevant guidance to today's productions. This methodological paper presents a timely reflection that seeks to document the digitisation of Padley Mill in the Grindleford Village of the U.K., which was the key design output and built heritage of the late British academic and architect Peter Blundell Jones. The paper starts with a brief review on the current developments on digital reality capture methods in architectural heritage studies, followed by the Padley Mill digital preservation case study via its three work stages utilising LiDAR data and photogrammetry data. It closes with a humanities echo after the historian-designer on the layering and storytelling of the historic environment. The distinction of this paper is it combines and enhances the digital visualisation and storytelling of endangered architectural heritage through 3D LiDAR scanning and digital photogrammetry, promoting further methodological debates in the digital preservation of architectural heritage.

Implementation of Knowledge Sharing in Learning to Write Essay Through Genre Based Approach

The aim of this research is to obtain an overview of improving essay-writing skills through implementing knowledge sharing in the genre pedagogy approach (Genre Based Approach) in The Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program at higher education. The research design uses quantitative methods (pretest posttest design) and qualitative data in the form of student responses to applied knowledge sharing. The research sample consisted of 20 students who took part in writing lessons. The data obtained is in the form of essay texts based on the stages of guided construction, independent construction in the form of average scores on the pretest and posttest. The results of the research are test scores with an average of 75.1 and at posttest 85.3. The results of the second research are the percentage of responses via Google Form (as a form of implementation of the socialization of 'tacit knowledge' to externalization' resulting in construction products, both joint and independent construction. Through the application of knowledge sharing and genre pedagogy, it appears that the student response is that knowledge sharing can stimulate critical thinking, sharing knowledge creates learning outcomes products, accommodating the implementation of joint construction as part of the genre-based approach stage, with a high response.

Initiating systemic capacity development for leadership from the bottom-up: a realist evaluation of a leadership innovation in a South African health district.

The need for leadership in and of district health systems is critical for the effective delivery of services and for inter-sectoral collaboration for health. Leadership capacity development has not, however, been prioritised within health systems and the systemic capacity (i.e. roles, structures, and processes) that is needed to develop managers who can lead is not always in place. This paper aims to contribute to understanding how to build such capacity, considering a relevant bottom-up innovation. We observed, in the period 2013 - 2015, the emergent implementation of this innovation (a 'Leadership Commission') in a South African health district. What started out as an effort to train individual leaders evolved into the development of systemic capacity for leadership capacity development (LCD). We adopted realist evaluation as the main methodological approach, as well as case study design; and we first developed a programme theory of the internally driven LCD initiative, through a round of interviews with senior managers. We then tested the programme theory drawing on fourteen in-depth interviews and field notes of meetings and processes. Our analysis suggests that building systemic capacity for LCD requires leadership to be expressed as a strategic priority by those with positional authority; and that bottom-up LCD requires institutional commitment through strengthening routine structures or creating new ones. The ability to leverage existing resources is another key element of systemic capacity. The mechanisms that enable bottom-up capacity development include tacit and experiential knowledge, sensemaking, systems thinking, and trust between, and motivation of, those tasked with leading LCD. Leadership development is constrained by increased workloads for those involved if the prioritisation of leadership becomes simply an additional task, and sustainability challenges are likely in the absence of additional resources for bottom-up innovation.

Locating Young Women in Public Space

Young women have largely been left out of public space design and planning processes. There is a need for meaningful knowledge production to be centred on, and grounded within, this group. In this viewpoint, we propose and evaluate our feminist spatial researcher-in-residence methodology for engaging young women in design and planning processes. We developed this model for a series of peer research projects on gender and perceptions of public space, with individuals who identify as girls and young women in the UK from April 2022 to October 2023. We first give an overview of our method which focuses on peer research – notably the researcher-in-residence model – and subsequently go on to discuss two central aspects: (un)learning and visual methods. We argue that such approaches contrast traditional methods of doing research with young people (e.g. surveying), by giving us ways of exploring the banality (eg. benches) and complexity (feelings of safety) of young women’s experiences of the public realm; and by allowing research participants to have greater agency in representing their own lifeworlds. It is our view that this methodology makes the case for why it is essential to value the tacit knowledge that young women and girls have in meaningful and attentive ways if we are to create an inclusive public realm.

Enhancing the Competences of Female Village Officials in Zhanjiang from the Perspective of the Sociology of Knowledge

This study investigates the socio-cultural and institutional challenges faced by female village officials in Zhanjiang, using the sociology of knowledge framework to explore how tailored training programs can enhance their competences. Qualitative data, collected from participatory observation, semi-structured interviews, and training documents, were analyzed, revealing that context-specific and gender-sensitive approaches to knowledge selection, application, and transmission can empower the female officials to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and everyday governance. Additionally, participatory methods like role-playing and case studies, adopted by the training can help the female officials apply new skills to real-world governance challenges. The findings also suggest training content needs to align with the socio-cultural realities of female village officials, particularly in aspects related to leadership, dispute mediation, and rural development. By focusing on the interplay between formal, codified knowledge and local, tacit knowledge, the study contributes to the literature on in-service training, rural governance, and gender studies.

Developing explicit and implicit L2 knowledge with Duolingo’s input-based features: Case studies of L2 Spanish learning

In this single-case study with a quasi-experimental design, we set out to examine the role of two input-based features of the language learning app Duolingo on learners’ development of implicit and explicit second language (L2) knowledge. We investigated the effect of Duolingo’s Stories feature and Podcast feature on two Spanish-L2 learners’ performance on a battery of implicit and explicit L2 knowledge tests. Once a week, over a four-week period using these input-based features, both participants repeatedly performed oral narrative tasks, timed and untimed grammaticality judgment tasks, and metalinguistic knowledge tests. The participant assigned to the Podcast condition showed meager gains in productive implicit knowledge (measured by oral narrative tasks) but decreased in receptive explicit knowledge (measured by untimed grammaticality judgment tasks). The participant assigned to the Stories condition showed a large increase in receptive implicit knowledge of Spanish (measured by timed grammaticality judgment tasks). Neither participant showed meaningful gains in the measure of productive explicit knowledge (measured by metalinguistic knowledge tasks). Although there was a slight increase in receptive explicit knowledge for the participant using Stories, the data from both participants discount the idea that app-based mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) prioritizes receptive explicit L2 knowledge, at least when considering these novel input-based features of Duolingo. These findings add nuance to previous research showing that the primary outcome of MALL app use is receptive explicit L2 knowledge.

Decision Support Systems as a Moderator Affect the Relationship between Tacit Knowledge and Strategic Decision Quality Among Nurse Managers

Decision Support Systems as a Moderator Affect the Relationship between Tacit Knowledge and Strategic Decision Quality Among Nurse Managers

A Study About Family Businesses in Kanyakumari District

Family Businesses are the oldest form of commercial organization and plays a crucial role in the development of the economy. It is a distinctive organization form with concentrated ownership, deep-rooted tacit knowledge, and lengthy family tenures. These are commercial organizations which are passed on from generations to generations and hence, the members in the family tend to influence the business decision making process (Baltazar et al. 2023). Family business aids in the survival of an individual when there is high unemployment rate and it provides job opportunities as well. However, there are problems involved in family businesses such as inability to incorporate business knowledge to the other family members. This can cause hindrance in the development of the business and even lead to the closure of the business. (Amenah et al. 2023) The research objective of the study is to analyse the issues faced in family businesses and providing the required suggestions. The primary data collection is through convenience sampling, and the sample size is 120. The secondary data collection was through journals, books, websites and databases. The statistical analysis revealed significant differences between age groups and the advantages of family businesses, particularly in areas such as long-term vision, commitment, trust, and agility. Similarly, key challenges like family conflicts, lack of succession planning, and resistance to change were found to significantly impact family businesses, highlighting the need for targeted interventions.

On the decision-making framework for policing: A proposal for improving police decision-making

This article introduces the Decision-Making Framework for Policing (DMFP), a comprehensive tool designed to enhance the decision-making understanding of police officers. The DMFP considers the principles of heuristic, naturalistic, and rational decision-making along a fluid cognitive continuum to create a framework that addresses the limitations of the existing police National Decision Model (NDM). It achieves this by including 10 proposed typologies of police decision-making including: Routine, Tactical, Operational, Crisis, Investigative, Ethical, Interpersonal, Administrative, Managerial, and Strategic. These are integrated alongside existing and adapted decision-making models which are presented using a mnemonic letter strategy. Although the DMFP is theoretical, and its utility is presently untested in comparison to the existing NDM, it is presented to provide a tool to help improve officers' tacit knowledge, pattern recognition, and experiential learning through provision of easily recallable mnemonic decision-models. Thereby fostering a deeper understanding of cognitive processes and the factors influencing police decisions, potentially increasing consistency in reasoning, reducing decision errors, and enhancing policing outcomes.

ANALISIS KNOWLEDGE SHARING DALAM INOVASI BISNIS UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KINERJA USAHA MIKRO KABUPATEN CIANJUR MENGGUNAKAN PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE

The Cianjur Diskoperindagin recorded that 2,715 new MSMEs had emerged. However, Cianjur micro businesses experienced a significant decline in sales, making it difficult to design and implement marketing strategies. Therefore, micro businesses are required to produce quality, competitive products that have high competitiveness and to continue to innovate in terms of product development and sales. This research seeks to analyze the effectiveness of micro-enterprise knowledge sharing through business innovation. Research data was obtained by distributing questionnaires to 140 micro business actors in Cianjur. Data and conceptual models were tested using the PLS-SEM method with the help of SmartPLS4 software. The research results show that the tacit knowledge sharing variable is explained by the variables trust, organizational structure and employee attitudes with a variance value of (10%). Meanwhile, the explicit knowledge sharing variable can be explained by the variables trust, organizational culture, employee attitudes and motivation methods with a variance of (20%). The quality of innovation in this research can be explained by explicit and tacit knowledge sharing with a variance value (12%). This is different from the speed of innovation which can only be explained by tacit knowledge sharing with a variance of (11%). This research also shows that the operational and financial performance of micro businesses in Cianjur can only be explained by the speed of innovation variable.