Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Knowledge ...

José Manuel Cardenas and Mauro Spinola
trust that members have with each o<strong>the</strong>r within a group <strong>of</strong> research, generates information that
cannot be contained within <strong>the</strong> system characteristics. In hypo<strong>the</strong>sis, <strong>the</strong> group established a
culture in which <strong>the</strong>ir coexistence cannot be absorbed by new members through <strong>the</strong> current use
<strong>of</strong> a determined information system, but only by accumulated experiences.
7. Conclusions
This paper was written with <strong>the</strong> goal <strong>of</strong> verify some links between how <strong>the</strong> tacit knowledge appears in
<strong>the</strong> daily form <strong>of</strong> a group <strong>of</strong> researchers, and striving to seek links with <strong>the</strong> IT tools used in order to
support <strong>the</strong> process/task <strong>of</strong> writing an academic paper. The different kinds <strong>of</strong> academic papers, and
<strong>the</strong>ir goals <strong>of</strong> publication have not been considered because it wasn’t needed to understand <strong>the</strong>
characteristics <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> knowledge production on <strong>the</strong> individual and collective levels.
Thus, it is possible to conclude that tacit knowledge dimension disagrees with <strong>the</strong> IT limitations in <strong>the</strong>
sense that is so difficult to align <strong>the</strong> properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> specific knowledge and information that is not
codified. It is suggested to consider enhancing <strong>the</strong> methodology to better observe <strong>the</strong> behavior <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>
tacit knowledge because it is so difficult to assess <strong>the</strong> role <strong>of</strong> technology in support <strong>the</strong> user needs in
order to take advantage from <strong>the</strong> tacit knowledge. The importance <strong>of</strong> this point is that each case is a
different case from o<strong>the</strong>r; considering <strong>the</strong> user’s view, but within a tacit group, usually, <strong>the</strong> IT tools are
<strong>the</strong> same.
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