Knowledge / Transfer

Knowledge / Transfer

1. Tacit - Difficult to capture and communicate

2. Explicit - Can be seen, transferred, communicated

3. Michael Polanyi (1962)

4. Objectivist View - Concept of Mind

   • Tabula Rasa - Theory of Mind
   • Residing in Mental Structures
   • Computer Model of Mind

5. Strategy View - Distinction

   • Seen as strategic factor of production
     • Linked to organisational performance
   • Penrose (1959) Growth can be better understood by resources

6. Practice View - Sociology and Social Theory

7. Prime Movers - Individual Members

   • If not committed - knowledge creation more difficult

8. Individual Knowledge becomes Organisational Knowledge when enlarged, justified and amplified within organisation