Nonaka and Takeuchi’s highly influential account of tacit–explicit knowledgeconversion in Japan’s knowledge-creating companies has been instrumental in Knowledge Management’s institutionalisation of Michael Polanyi’s distinction between ‘tacit knowledge’ and ‘explicit knowledge’. But tacit knowledge has been misunderstood and what Nonaka and Takeuchi claim in the name of explicit knowledge does...

This paper discusses the important process of knowledge and its management, and differences between tacit and explicit knowledge and understanding the culture as a key issue for the successful implementation of knowledge management, in addition to, this paper is concerned with the four-stage model for the evolution of information technology (IT) support for knowledge management in law firms. Ke...

The purpose of this paper is to present a critical analysis of the well known knowledge dynamics model elaborated by Ikujiro Nonaka and his co-workers. The essence of this model consists of three layers of the knowledge-creation process: (a) the process of knowledge creation through socialization-externalizationcombination-internalization (SECI), the knowledge conversion process between tacit a...

Memory systems theory argues for separate neural systems supporting implicit and explicit memory in the human brain. Neuropsychological studies support this dissociation, but empirical studies of cognitively healthy participants generally observe that both kinds of memory are acquired to at least some extent, even in implicit learning tasks. A key question is whether this observation reflects p...

As a microblogging service, Twitter is playing a more and more important role in our life. Users follow various accounts, such as friends or celebrities, to get the most recent information. However, as one follows more and more people, he/she may be overwhelmed by the huge amount of status updates. Twitter messages are only displayed by time recency, which means if one cannot read all messages,...

Knowledge can be acquired through either an explicit or implicit learning process. Knowledge produced by an explicit learning process is explicit and can be verbalized; on the other hand, knowledge accumulated by way of an implicit learning process is implicit and difficult to be articulated. The distinctive characteristics of these two processes have attracted attention in psychology domain. I...

Knowledge can be classified as explicit and implicit knowledge. This study investigates how national or regional culture influences on the explicit and implicit knowledge sharing behaviour in the context of multi-national virtual teams. The findings suggest national culture significantly influence on participants’ attitude to sharing knowledge in IT-enabled virtual teams. This study provides so...

In this chapter knowledge management is considered from a process-oriented point of view, instead of a resource point of view. Managing knowledge is therefore something more than collecting, storing, ordering and disseminating information and documents: it regards all the processes through which human beings create new (tacit and/or explicit) knowledge transforming the existing (tacit and/or ex...

We compare different epistemic notions in the presence of awareness of propositional variables: the logics of implicit knowledge (in which explicit knowledge is definable), explicit knowledge, and speculative knowledge. Different notions of bisimulation are suitable for these logics. We provide correspondence between bisimulation and modal equivalence on image-finite models for these logics. Th...