scholarly journals Tacit Knowing--Between Modernism and Postmodernism

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy F. Sanders ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Episteme ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Abida Malik

Abstract Tacit knowing as a concept and legitimate topic of scholarship came up in philosophical research in the second half of the 20th century in the form of some influential works by Michael Polanyi (although similar concepts had been discussed before). Systematic epistemological studies on the topic are still scarce, however. In this article, I support the thesis that tacit knowing pervades all our common major divisions of knowledge and that it therefore must not be neglected in epistemological research. By this approach I am simultaneously giving a systematic back-up for Polanyi's claim that the tacit component is found in all knowledge.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumat Jain ◽  
Jayant Dubey

The concept of tacit knowing comes from scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. It is important to understand that he wrote about a process (hence tacit knowing) and not a form of knowledge. However, his phrase has been taken up to name a form of knowledge that is apparently wholly or partly inexplicable. Tacit knowledge cannot be “captured”, “translated”, or “converted” but only displayed and manifested, in what we do. New knowledge comes about not when the tacit becomes explicit, but when our skilled performance is punctuated in new ways through social interaction. tacit knowledge - Knowledge that enters into the production of behaviours and/or the constitution of mental states but is not ordinarily accessible to consciousness. See also cognize, knowledge, implicit memory, Background, rules. This paper presents the overview of the term Tacit Management, in which we are going to present the different types of tacit knowledge, definitions, and properties of it. How is it useful in applicability of management education? The benefits from it, failure due to lack of tacit knowledge, the paradox of it and at last the conclusion related to the terminology Tacit Knowledge Management (TKM).


Author(s):  
Sarah Philipson

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate key antecedents to the use of radical innovation of the business model of a service firm to achieve competitive advantage. “Business model” emerged fairly recently as an academic concept, competing with “sustainable strategic competitiveness”, “strategic fit” (Porter, 1996) and “dominant logic” (Prahalad and Bettis, 1986) to give key explanatory understanding of firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on action research, in which the re-engineering of a service business turned into radical innovation of the business model. Findings – Radical innovation (conceived of as a new dominant logic) of the business model of a service firm is shown to give sustainable competitive advantage. It shows how fundamental the concept of business model is to understanding the nature of the business and links it to fundamental academic discussion of recent decades around concepts such as “sustainable competitive advantage”, “structural capital” and “tacit knowing”. Research limitations/implications – This is based on a case, and more research is needed to generalize the findings. Practical implications – In contrast to the knowledge management and structural capital evangelization, much tacit knowing cannot be converted to structural capital. Originality/value – Business model is a central concept to understand business performance, but must not be conceived as all-encompassing. We give a model for what the concept should cover and contrast it with other important models.We show the role of tacit knowledge in a business model.


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