Explicit knowledge

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The term Explicit knowledge ( explicit = expressly detail ) in 1966 in the classification system of Michael Polanyi , unlike the term tacit knowledge as uniquely coded and therefore by signs ( language , font ) clearly communicable knowledge understood. It is the verbalized knowledge of rules and facts, such as instructions , treatises and documentation in the broadest sense.

Example: Scientific findings are usually written in a systematic (formal) language and communicated through publications. Because of the coded form, this explicit knowledge can be stored, processed and transmitted through any media.

In organizations (eg. As companies ) is to strive also in the minds (both verbalise explicit knowledge as memory to make existing) implicit knowledge available. So-called knowledge management systems are often used for this.

See also

literature

  • Ikujirō Nonaka , Hirotaka Takeuchi : The knowledge creating company. How Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1995, ISBN 0-19-509269-4 (In German: The organization of knowledge. How Japanese companies make an idle resource usable. Translated from the English by Friedrich Mader. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, ISBN 978-3-593-35643-3 ).
  • Michael Polanyi : Personal Knowledge. Towards a post-critical philosophy. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL 1958.
  • Michael Polanyi: Implicit knowledge (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. 543). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-28143-7 .
  • Christian Schilcher: Implicit dimensions of knowledge and their importance for corporate knowledge management. 2006, (Technical University, dissertation, Darmstadt 2006, online ).
  • Markus Schönemann: Management of knowledge and skills. A contribution to the realignment of knowledge management. VDM-Verlag Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-639-03181-2 .
  • Georg Schreyögg , Daniel Geiger: If everything is knowledge, in the end knowledge is nothing ?! In: Business Administration. Vol. 63, No. 1, 2003, ISSN  0342-7064 , pp. 7-22, ( digital copy (PDF; 234.78 kB) ).