From Experience and Habit to Regulation:How to Make Organizational Tacit Knowledge Explicit?
How institutions are formed is a classic topic in public management research.Existing research has focused on new institutional arrangements resulting from the collapse of empirical habitus,ignoring the positive orientation of empirical habitus to institutional formation.The transition from empirical habitus to regulations,a common phenomenon in organizations that provides standards of behavior and maintains organizational functioning through empirical habitus hidden in the organization,is also a form of institution formation and is very important.How are the habits of experience transformed into rules and regulations?The study chooses the reform of standardization of integrated services in S district's organ affairs as a case study,describing the complete process of the transformation of the organ affairs bureau's empirical habitus into a regulation.Based on the theory of knowledge production,the study corresponds tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge to the experience habits and regulations in the study of institutions,and constructs an analytical framework of"the externalization of organizational tacit knowledge"to explain the formation of institutions from the perspective of the theory of knowledge production.It suggests that organizations promote knowledge production from the socialization stage to the explicit and combined stage through the cohesion of learning consensus,the creation of learning opportunities,the expansion of learning networks and the enhancement of learning incentives,so as to realize the transformation of knowledge from tacit form to explicit form,and complete the transformation from experiential norms to formal regulations.
institutionalizationempirical habitusregulationknowledge production standardization of institutional services