Practical and Tacit Knowing as a Foundation of Information Systems

The importance of the human subject (and subjectivity) with its inherent capacity for intuition as a foundational concept for Information Systems is explored in this paper. The paper considers two philosophical contributions: (1) Michael Polanyi's distinction between Practical and Tacit Knowing...

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Main Author: John Haynes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Australasian Association for Information Systems 1999-05-01
Series:Australasian Journal of Information Systems
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Online Access:http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/306