Despite the almost unlimited quantity of information at our fingertips via the internet, there are just some things you can’t ...

Enterprises are rapidly moving from an artificial intelligence that answers questions and generates content to one that ...

The special issue of the journal Comedy Studies sets out to explore two interconnected questions: How does comedy depend on ‘comic literacies’, i.e., historically and culturally variable knowledge ...

Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.” His great observation was that a large part of what ...

Many skills take years to master. Yet even the people who perform them best often cannot explain exactly how they do it. They might describe the basics, but the subtle parts remain hard to put into ...

A figure shows how trained participants began to gaze mainly at the one relevant side of each image. “They were unconsciously focusing their attention on the part of the image that was actually ...

Summary: We all have skills we can’t quite explain—like the exact pressure needed to balance a bike or the “gut feeling” a specialist gets when analyzing a complex image. This is tacit knowledge, and ...

I recall the first full-time job I ever had. I was a young graduate joining Alcan, an aluminium company that made commercial aluminium windows and doors for the architectural building industry. I ...

This paper investigates the influence of power dynamics on knowledge-hiding (KH) behaviors in Chinese enterprises. Data were collected through questionnaires from 342 respondents. Structural ...

In a recent blog, I discussed Stanford University economist Erik Brynjolfsson’s new study showing that young college graduates are struggling to gain a foothold in a job market shaped by artificial ...