형식지 공유와 기업 경쟁력

Abstract

Extant academic research on knowledge management has emphasized the

importance of tacit knowledge as a source of sustainable competitive

advantage, while played down the significance of sharing explicit knowledge

among organizational members. Though tacit knowledge can be a source of

competitive advantage a s i t is hard for competitors to copy the knowledge, it

is very difficult for an organization to systematically manage the creation

and diffusion of the knowledge within the organization due to the tacit-ness

of the knowledge. In contrast, explicit knowledge can be systematically

managed by organization and thus efficient management of explicit knowledge

can be a source of competitive advantage, since the knowledge can be

expressed by the form of written documents or visual materials such as a

picture, figure, or diagram. This paper suggested the limitations of management

of tacit knowledge, and explained reasons that sharing of explicit

knowledge of organizational members can be a source of competitive

advantage.