All of our casestudy
companies publish stories of
individual and organizational achievement
in order to motivate employees and model
behaviour (French and Bell, 1990). Finally,
and connectedly, it may be the case that
notions of ``tacit knowledge'' (Nonaka, 1996;
Spender, 1996) and related ideas on
``informal'' (Marsick and Watkins, 1997) and
``implicit'' (Chao, 1997) learning will hold the
key to understanding the analysis processes
in SMEs. These concepts, though, are not
exclusively, or even particularly, pertinent to
the SME sector and, currently at least, are
more commonly applied to large
organizations