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3 Citations
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Intergenerational Tacit Knowledge Transfer: Leveraging AI

  • Bettina Falckenthal,
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira and
  • Cláudia Figueiredo

31 July 2025

The growing number of senior experts leaving the workforce (especially in more developed economies, such as in Europe), combined with the ubiquitous access to artificial intelligence (AI), is triggering organizations to review their knowledge transfe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,143 Views
17 Pages

Tacit knowledge, often implicit and deeply embedded within individuals and organizational practices, is critical for fostering innovation and decision-making in knowledge management systems (KMS). Converting tacit knowledge into explicit forms enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,230 Views
21 Pages

The Nexus between Team Culture, Innovative Work Behaviour and Tacit Knowledge Sharing: Theory and Evidence

  • Cem Işık,
  • Ekrem Aydın,
  • Tarik Dogru,
  • Abdul Rehman,
  • Rafael Alvarado,
  • Munir Ahmad and
  • Muhammad Irfan

13 April 2021

Tacit knowledge sharing is an essential intellectual capital for frontline employees in hotel enterprises. While the relationship of knowledge sharing with team culture (TC) and innovative work behavior (IWB) was investigated in the extant literature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,216 Views
22 Pages

7 March 2022

The sustainable development of organizations is inseparable from innovation, and tacit knowledge is the core resource used to achieve organizational innovation. Due to the implicitness of tacit knowledge and the complexity of members’ relations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Views
22 Pages

7 February 2026

In response to the widespread adoption of hybrid work models, organizations must strategically address the challenges of knowledge transfer and organizational learning in distributed environments. We extend March’s computational model of organi...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,442 Views
28 Pages

23 December 2025

This study conducts a systematic bibliometric review of artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches to tacit knowledge extraction and management. Drawing on data retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science, this study analyzes 126 publications publish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,398 Views
15 Pages

Higher education institutions (HEIs) create, disseminate, and share knowledge through relationships involving people, processes, and technologies. Tacit knowledge is difficult to formalize and depends on social context. Its sharing is influenced by i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,789 Views
32 Pages

In order to mitigate the risks of losing key personnel and their innate tacit knowledge resources, this paper explored a framework for reducing knowledge loss in South African public sector enterprises (PSEs) through the integration of knowledge mana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,945 Views
18 Pages

6 March 2019

Although there is a general recognition that human resource management (HRM) practices are a key factor in a firm’s innovation performance, from the extant literature we see that empirical investigation does not always offer evidence to support...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,270 Views
23 Pages

The Role of Tangible Interaction to Communicate Tacit Knowledge of Built Heritage

  • Eslam Nofal,
  • Rabee M. Reffat,
  • Vanessa Boschloos,
  • Hendrik Hameeuw and
  • Andrew Vande Moere

5 December 2018

Meanings and values of built heritage vary from factual and explicit meanings which are relatively easy to present, to more tacit knowledge, which is typically more challenging to communicate due to its implicit and often abstract character. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,735 Views
33 Pages

12 December 2019

The transformation of the tacit knowledge of a company’s human resources into permanent organizational capital in spite of possible staff turnover is of business interest. This research focuses on the management of tacit knowledge to resolve labor in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,651 Views
20 Pages

8 September 2025

Improving the innovation performance of mega projects has become a central concern in both engineering project management theory and practice. Organizational structure and culture are key contextual factors that can facilitate tacit knowledge sharing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,066 Views
25 Pages

Library organizations have enthusiastically undertaken semantic web initiatives and in particular the data publishing as linked data. Nevertheless, different surveys report the experimental nature of initiatives and the consumer difficulty in re-usin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
309 Views
25 Pages

19 February 2026

The research paper explored the barriers hindering the effective transfer and retention of tacit knowledge in postgraduate supervision within South African higher education institutions (HEIs). Extant literature reveals significant challenges, notabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,849 Views
17 Pages

24 September 2021

Relational capital and organizational performance were important factors for achieving sustainable development of the supply chain, and knowledge sharing could create and maintain sustainable competitive advantages of the supply chain. This study exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,612 Views
38 Pages

20 September 2020

Inclusive knowledge systems that engage local perspectives and social and natural sciences are difficult to generate and infuse into decision-making processes but are critical for conservation planning. This paper explores local tacit knowledge appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,604 Views
26 Pages

15 August 2022

At present, domestic consumers hold a wait-and-see attitude toward new energy vehicles. Although sales are increasing year-by-year, there is still a big gap compared with traditional fuel cars. In view of this problem, this paper starts to consider t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,220 Views
26 Pages

17 October 2023

The tacit nature of craft forms a barrier to the sustainability of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) crafts in craft–design collaboration that makes facilitating knowledge sharing across domains challenging. Hence, the discussion of tacit know...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
443 Views
16 Pages

From Hidden Insights to Better Understanding: Physicians’ Perspectives on Caregivers’ Tacit Knowledge

  • Sylvia A. Huisman,
  • Kasper Kruithof,
  • Maartje Hoogsteyns,
  • Appolonia M. Nieuwenhuijse,
  • Dick L. Willems and
  • Ilse H. Zaal-Schuller

22 December 2025

Background: Diagnosing physical and mental health issues in individuals with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) often proves challenging, as these patients are unable to speak for themselves. Caregivers’ tacit knowledge (TK)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,738 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2020

Tacit knowledge is an important strategic resource to the sustainable development of organizations. Although scholars and practitioners have noticed the growing use of social media in transferring tacit knowledge, extant empirical research has been f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,093 Views
19 Pages

14 September 2019

Policymakers and practitioners working in urban greenspace management want to know what kind of interventions are effective in promoting mental wellbeing. In practice, however, they rely on multiple forms of knowledge, often in unwritten form. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,196 Views
20 Pages

In construction projects, owners’ and contractors’ decisions as to whether or not share their tacit knowledge transparently with each other determines the choice of project delivery and contracting methods and their collaborative behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,640 Views
25 Pages

14 November 2018

This paper set out to investigate the ways training and development impacts on firm innovative performance as well as the moderating role of knowledge transfer received on training and development and firm innovative performance, using a sample of 22...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
15,444 Views
15 Pages

Non-adherence to medication among patients with schizophrenia is an important clinical issue with very complex reasons. Since medication administration is an essential nursing responsibility, improving strategies for patient medication compliance mus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,752 Views
17 Pages

The Effect of Secondary Education Teachers’ Metacognitive Knowledge and Professional Development on Their Tacit Knowledge Strategies

  • Maria Sofologi,
  • Evaggelia Foutsitzi,
  • Aphrodite Papantoniou,
  • Georgios Kougioumtzis,
  • Harilaos Zaragas,
  • Magdalini Tsolaki,
  • Despina Moraitou and
  • Georgia Papantoniou

The present study investigated the pattern of relations among the tacit knowledge of high school teachers, their professional development, and their metacognitive knowledge concerning their teaching practices. Two hundred and seventy-nine secondary s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,084 Views
18 Pages

27 February 2022

Children are often the most disadvantaged cohort during miserable situations of natural disaster, economic crisis, and environmental degradation. Meanwhile, children’s play is increasingly controlled, costly, and standardized with engineered st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,671 Views
28 Pages

10 February 2021

Digital regulation implies the quantified measuring and the network infrastructure allowing managers to control the processes of value creation. Digital regulation needs to take into account tacit elements of the value creation process, including unc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
954 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2025

This study addresses the challenge of digitally modeling Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in a manner that respects and preserves its epistemic integrity. Grounded in ethnographic inquiry and system design, the research introduces a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,197 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2021

The current research studied the relationship between cultural values and tacit and explicit knowledge sharing behavior in the context of sustainable organizations. The sample consisted of 751 workers from Colombian organizations. It was found that s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,935 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2021

Knowledge based on personal experience (tacit knowledge) acquired in problem solving actions and in maintenance actions is the fundamental basis for maintenance technicians in companies with great physical assets. Generally, there is no proper policy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
420 Views
18 Pages

Provisioning Tacit Knowledge from a Human Resources Management Perspective: A Preliminary Causal Loop Diagram

  • Mario Aguilar-Fernández,
  • Graciela Salgado-Escobar,
  • Luvis P. León-Romero,
  • Brenda García-Jarquín and
  • Misaela Francisco-Márquez

8 January 2026

The aim of this research is to develop a preliminary causal loop diagram (PCLD) of the tacit knowledge (TK) provisioning in a firm, from the knowledge-based human resource management (KB-HRM) perspective, which facilitates understanding phenomenon dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,903 Views
17 Pages

14 April 2016

Knowledge management systems are widely used to manage the knowledge in organizations. Consulting experts is an effective way to utilize tacit knowledge. The paper aims to optimize the match between users and experts to improve the efficiency of taci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,003 Views
26 Pages

30 October 2025

This study focuses on exploring the nature of inter-organizational learning and the types of knowledge that are transferred/shared between foreign multinational companies (MNCs) and their local partner firms within international interfirm alliances i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,814 Views
17 Pages

Protocol for Identifying and Retaining Critical Knowledge in a Public Health Administration

  • Núria Arimany-Serrat,
  • Maria Antentas-Peraile and
  • Elisenda Tarrats-Pons

19 November 2024

The Secretary of Public Health (SSP) faces a looming skills gap due to retirements and rotations of civil service staff. Critical knowledge retention is crucial across all generational cohorts due to the retirement and turnover of workers. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,722 Views
28 Pages

Background: Logistics problems involve a large number of complexities, which makes the development of models challenging. While computer simulation models are developed for addressing complexities, it is essential to ensure that the necessary operati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,047 Views
27 Pages

12 May 2020

This paper studies the effect that ambidextrous knowledge, i.e., oriented knowledge within a firm towards the development of exploitation activities and oriented knowledge towards the development of exploration activities, has on employee creativity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,271 Views
11 Pages

Factors in the Relationship between Maintenance Engineering and Knowledge Management

  • Javier Cárcel-Carrasco,
  • José-Antonio Cárcel-Carrasco and
  • Elisa Peñalvo-López

18 April 2020

The mechanisms of transmission and management of knowledge are mostly created by maintenance and exploitation activities of large buildings and industrial facilities, but they are poorly studied due to the difficulty capturing themas they belong to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
396 Views
21 Pages

16 January 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI), a transformative force, has revolutionised various aspects of human life and business operations. This has led to a drastic mutation of the career landscape, embedded with vast opportunities as well as challenges, partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,685 Views
25 Pages

8 March 2021

This study focuses on the loss of youth and talent as one of the most pressing social justice issues leading to unsustainable and inequitable development in rural communities. With the backdrop of the rapid decline in the young rural population and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,751 Views
21 Pages

18 January 2025

Knowledge flow as the key to facilitating new technology production and diffusing innovation is crucial for achieving sustainable development. However, previous studies pay less attention to the type of knowledge in knowledge flow network constructio...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
2,849 Views
12 Pages

eMailMe: A Method to Build Datasets of Corporate Emails in Portuguese

  • Akira A. de Moura Galvão Uematsu and
  • Anarosa A. F. Brandão

31 July 2023

One of the areas in which knowledge management has application is in companies that are concerned with maintaining and disseminating their practices among their members. However, studies involving these two domains may end up suffering from the issue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
325 Views
20 Pages

Understanding how tacit knowledge embedded in visual materials is accessed and utilized during evaluation tasks remains a key challenge in human–computer interaction and visual expertise research. Although eye-tracking studies have identified s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
28,825 Views
20 Pages

Communities of Practice Approach for Knowledge Management Systems

  • Sitalakshmi Venkatraman and
  • Ramanathan Venkatraman

27 September 2018

In this digital world, organisations are facing global competition as well as manpower pressures leading towards the knowledge economy, which heavily impacts on their local and international businesses. The trend is to foster collaboration and knowle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,999 Views
18 Pages

Tacit Contributions and Roles of Senior Researchers: Experiences of a Multinational Company

  • Walter Pérez Villa,
  • Amaya Pérez-Ezcurdia and
  • Miguel Angel Vigil Berrocal

13 December 2022

One of the concerns of innovation-dependent organisations is that the gradual increase in the average age of their employees might affect their creativity and innovation rates, leading to losses in competitiveness. The purpose of this paper was to de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,012 Views
16 Pages

Selection of assistive technology devices (ATDs), which are imperative for persons with disabilities to improve their quality of life, requires collaboration of users and multidisciplinary professionals. However, it is still unknown how to design and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,725 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2018

Based on the perspective of knowledge transfer and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this paper constructs a university technology transfer sustainable development model that considers the inventor’s technology service from the perspective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,185 Views
15 Pages

1 September 2020

The third sector represents a vast and heterogeneous universe that has a key role in society from both the social and civil points of view. It also represents an informal learning context where competence and knowledge are acquired, often in a tacit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,624 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2019

With the continuous effort for a harmonious coexistence with nature in human settlement, theories for ecological design and urban sustainability are proposed and developed. However, in 2014, a new concept called ‘ecological wisdom’ was pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Citations
23,587 Views
26 Pages

This article condenses the key findings of qualitative studies on assembly work. Grounded conceptually in considerations of the role of experiential knowledge and living labor capacity with regard to informal expertise and tacit knowledge, the empiri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
820 Views
18 Pages

19 September 2025

This research is an in-depth qualitative case study of a historic homestead in the town of Čekiškė, located in Lithuania, through the lens of sustainability aesthetics and cultural ecology. The research addresses a gap in the literat...

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