An empirical study of shop floor tacit knowledge acquisition in Chinese manufacturing enterprises

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.J. Zhou
Author(s):  
Alena Zemplinerova ◽  
Radek Lastovicka ◽  
Anton Marcincin

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 953-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingling Zhang ◽  
Minghui Zhao ◽  
Zili Feng

In the era of big data, how to obtain useful knowledge from online news and utilize it as an important basis to make investment decision has become the hotspot of industrial and academic research. At present, there have been research and practice on explicit knowledge acquisition from news, but tacit knowledge acquisition is still under exploration. Based on the general mechanism of domain knowledge, knowledge reasoning, and knowledge discovery, this paper constructs a framework for discovering tacit knowledge from news and applying the knowledge to stock forecasting. The concrete work is as follows: First, according to the characteristics of financial field and the conceptual cube, the conceptual structure of industry–company–product is constructed, and the framework of domain ontology is put forward. Second, with the construction of financial field ontology, the financial news knowledge management framework is proposed. Besides, with the application of attributes in ontology and domain rules extracted from news text, the knowledge reasoning mechanism of financial news is constructed to achieve financial news knowledge discovery. Finally, news knowledge that reflects important information about stock changes is integrated into the traditional stock price forecasting model and the newly proposed model performs well in the empirical analysis of polyester industry.


2015 ◽  
pp. 1186-1197
Author(s):  
Samer Alhawari

This paper examines how Jordanian banks use the Customer Knowledge process to support Customer Knowledge Acquisition (CKA) and how they foster it. The empirical study is based on a sample of the data collected from 165 respondents, drawn randomly from six banks. The results showed that the six selected factors (Need for Customer Knowledge, Identify Source of Customer Knowledge, Verify Source of Customer Knowledge, Capture of Customer Knowledge, Apply of Knowledge about Customer, and Verify of Knowledge about Customer) have a significant impact on customer knowledge acquisition. On the other hand, the (Analysis of Customer Knowledge) is not a significant impact on customer knowledge acquisition in Jordanian banks. For this reason, the purpose of this paper is to study how Jordanian Banks use the Customer Knowledge process to support Customer Knowledge Acquisition. The empirical findings will certainly help both researchers and practitioners in future customer knowledge process, and Customer Knowledge Acquisition research.


Author(s):  
Peter Busch

One must, after reading the above two quotes, make up one’s own mind as to the composition of tacit knowledge, for it seems Cavusgil et al., (2003) are certainly not discussing the same tacit knowledge as von Krogh et al. (2000). The tacit knowledge studied herein is more akin to that discussed by the latter set of authors, that is to say a form of knowledge that is passed through what Nonaka and colleagues have labelled socialisation in intimate person to person settings. In time the organisation builds up a stock of such soft knowledge, which is lost when staff leave and not replaced again either until further skilled staff arrive, or the ones remaining acquire it through experience over time. Whilst earlier work in this empirical study examined the phenomenon of tacit knowledge in depth (including a multitude of definitions as revealed in Appendix A), what was ultimately settled upon for the empirical research in this study was that of articulable implicit managerial IT knowledge.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Avdimiotis

Tacit knowledge is a concept developed in connection with knowledge management research field. It is acknowledged as the cornerstone of competitive advantage; however, merely its possession does not guarantee an edge in fierce competition. Even though tacit knowledge holds a dominative role towards labor efficiency, productivity and innovation, the subject of tacit knowledge acquisition and transfer has been rather unexploited, mostly due to its intrinsic, highly personal and seamlessly bonded to holder's personality, attributes. The purpose of the article is to contribute to the exploitation of the embedded tacit knowledge of employees in hospitality establishments, a sector where the employment of tacit knowledge has to be extensive and foremost, capitalizing the maximum of personnel competences. Moreover, the paper correlates tacit knowledge acquisition and transfer, with behaviors stemming from a working environment where task assignment is adjusted to employees personal characteristics. Towards this goal, research hypotheses were built and tested, using SEM Methodology.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 573-594
Author(s):  
Rida Elias ◽  
Bassam Farah

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a model that can explain how organizations may retain their executives’ tacit knowledge in the organization especially during the succession period. The proposed model takes into consideration three critical contexts that may assist in improving the knowledge flow during the transition period, namely, motivation context, transition context and ability context. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a conceptual framework that emphasizes the importance of the will and skill of two parties involved in succession, i.e. the predecessor and successor, as well as the context of the succession. To this end, the paper advances a set of propositions that explain how these different contexts affect the quantity and quality of the knowledge acquired by the successor at the end of the succession period. Findings This paper advances a theoretical model that describes the antecedents and moderator of job-specific knowledge acquired during executive succession. Research limitations/implications This paper presents a theoretical model that explains knowledge flow during the transitory period of succession. It emphasizes the importance of the motivation and ability of the partners involved while taking into consideration the context of succession. Practical implications This paper contributes considerably and in a practical manner to managers in general and to human resource managers in particular. It draws the attention of concerned managers to check the motivation of both successor and predecessor in experiencing the transition, explain to the successors the job description of the position to direct their attention to learn specific knowledge and equip both parties involved in the succession with the needed skills. Originality/value This paper advances a new concept termed as accelerated engaged tacit knowledge acquisition. This concept complements other perspectives of knowledge flow and learning and takes into consideration the specific context of executive succession.


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