Contractual implications of international trade in tacit knowledge

Foreign Trade and International Financial Flows: Implications for Economic Stability in the Selected ECOWAS Countries

T his study investigates the effects of extra-ECOWAS merchandise trade and investment flows on the transmission of business cycles in the selected ECOWAS between 1985 and 2014.  The study finds that total trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) significantly influence the transmission of business cycles with elasticities of 1.1 and 0.7, respectively in the long run. There are little vari...

How Tacit Is Tacit Knowledge?

Our study concerns tacit knowledge that has been one of the most discussed concepts in the field of contemporary knowledge management. We are particularly interested in the issues concerning 1) the nature of tacit knowledge, and 2) the idea of explication of tacit knowledge. We approach these questions from the perspective of cognitive science. Tacit knowledge is deeply related to conceptual mo...

The Implications of Tacit Knowledge Research for Organizations

Tacit Knowledge in Requirements

The importance of tacit knowledge in requirements elicitation and understanding is widely accepted but poorly understood. There is no clear definition of tacit knowledge, with definitions spanning knowledge that cannot be articulated to knowledge that is merely unarticulated. The situation is further confused by the fact that the most widely cited author on tacit knowledge (Michael Polanyi) act...

Development of International Trade in Health Services in the Legal System of World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization, as one of the youngest international organizations following its 50th activity of predecessor means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the Multilateral Trade System, through the establishment of a General Agreement on Trade in Services, regulated the domain of International Trade in services and by designating Integrated legal framework for the advanceme...