According to Polanyi's concept, tacit knowledge is deeply related to skills and so is very difficult for the individual to articulate.
Owned by Zhang Baoquan, an art, film and real estate mogul, the casino bar is the Chinese government's first approval, albeit tacit, of a gambling concept outside Macau and apart from two state-run lotteries.
In 2005, McKinsey & Co. made a big splash with the concept of tacit interactions, processes that can't be automated in a step-by-step manner.
Although the validity of the concept of tacit knowledge has been contested (Perraton and Tarrant 2007; Schmidt 2012), it is, nonetheless, a useful concept for the knowledge residing in personnel that is difficult to capture in standard operating procedures (SOP).
It was Michael Polanyi, in 1958, via his magnum opus, Personal Knowledge, who first introduced the concept of tacit knowledge to the Western world -- his attempt to communicate that "we know more than we can tell" and that this knowing requires extensive, ongoing, personal contact with "people in the know", respect for pre-logical knowing, practice, and a healthy dose of trust.
We draw on Nonaka's concept of tacit knowledge, distinct from Polanyi's position, in our own work given its dominance and applied focus in the management literature.
Tacit consent is indeed a watering down of the concept of consent, but Locke can do this because the basic content of what governments are to be like is set by natural law and not by consent.
Now, however, the construction industry is adapting concepts of tacit and explicit knowledge management to improve the situation.
The technique, which has been developed, operationalises the concepts of: tacit and explicit knowledge, radical and incremental innovation, and the five basic knowledge management processes: externalisation, dissemination, internalisation, socialisation, and discontinuous learning.
9. Tacit knowledge is a foundational concept in the resource-based view of the company.
