Examples of expressible tacit knowledge include personal information about staff, colleagues and customers; competitors; recipes and formulas; trade secrets; rules of thumb; and tricks of the trade.

Using these and other examples, I wanted to formulate a positive definition of tacit knowledge. I found that I had to distinguish different types of tacit knowledge.

Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from de Architectura are from the Belles Lettres editions, and all English translations are slightly modified versions of the Penguin translation. The entire ...

Our analysis of a large sample of Major League Baseball teams from 1985 to 2001 provides significant support for the importance of each of these categories of tacit knowledge for the performance of an ...