Examples of expressible tacit knowledge include personal information about staff, colleagues and customers; competitors; recipes and formulas; trade secrets; rules of thumb; and tricks of the trade.

The general idea of tacit knowledge is very important. It forms the basis of expertise and it informs efforts at knowledge management (e.g., Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) and training.

The tougher task is capturing “tacit knowledge”. This is the know-how born of experience, which cannot easily be documented in the manuals and is not much thought about by those who have it.

The thread greasing is an example of tacit knowledge: know-how that can be passed on only through direct contact, and not by written or verbal instruction. How to ride a bicycle is a classic case.

Our analysis of a large sample of Major League Baseball teams from 1985 to 2001 provides significant support for the importance of each of these categories of tacit knowledge for the performance of an ...

We employ a social network framework to propose that characteristics of a firm's social structure determine the degree of tacit knowledge loss upon employee exit. Specifically, we posit that the ...

To test the role of alignment between control systems and knowledge types in affecting knowledge accessibility, a questionnaire was administered to all engineers located in North America (855 people) ...

Using these and other examples, I wanted to formulate a positive definition of tacit knowledge. I found that I had to distinguish different types of tacit knowledge.