Mismanagement of tacit knowledge: the importance of tacit knowledge, the danger of information technology, and what to do about it

By J. Johannessen, J. Olaisen, Bjørn Olsen. International Journal of Information Management, 2001

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A knowledge management approach to organizational competitive advantage: Evidence from the food sector (2009, background): “It is important to note that tacit knowledge held by employees is usually part of a long-term learning process in a specific context, embodied in the structure of thinking, the way of thinking, and therefore it may act as a conservative element in relation to innovation (Johannessen et al., 2001).”
A Resource-Based View of Strategic IT Alignment: How Knowledge Sharing Creates Competitive Advantage (2003, background): “This cross-participation is necessary to elucidate the tacit knowledge that often remains undiscovered and is not shared in the organizational knowledge base (Johannessen et al., 2001) and to make this personal knowledge explicit at the organizational level.”
Mission impossible? Communicating and sharing knowledge via information technology (2002, background): “Knowledge can be categorized in two different categories: explicit and tacit knowledge (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995) (Johannessen et al ., 2001, p. 4).”