Tacit knowledge acquisition and sharing in intra-organization

Abstract

Tacit knowledge forms foundation and source of core-competitiveness and can play more significant role on technology innovation of firms. Firms need to develop tacit knowledge to gain competitive advantage. However, merely possession of knowledge does not guarantee an edge in competition. Quantity of tacit knowledge holders is smaller in intra-organization. To increase the quantity of tacit knowledge holders, tacit knowledge must be transferred in intra-organization. In this paper, we put forward categorizations of tacit knowledge and various transference model of tacit knowledge, and analyze relation of between disseminative capacity of knowledge senders and absorptive capacity of knowledge recipients in intra-organization. Theoretical analysis and simulation results convince us that pull-model applied to tacit knowledge flows to transfer, star-model and tree-model applied to socialization and externalization of tacit knowledge‥