causal-ambiguity

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Codification erodes a moat only once the codified form is exposed to a rival — not on codification alone

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-10-07 · codification, tacit-knowledge, competitive-moat, distillation, chain-of-thought
Reed & DeFillippi (1990): tacitness, complexity, and specificity generate causal ambiguity that raises barriers to competitive imitation

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · causal-ambiguity, tacit-knowledge, imitation, competitive-advantage, strategy-literature
Codification is the shared hinge between automation and imitation: the same non-codifiability is an obstacle in CANONIC and a moat in EUV

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · tacit-knowledge, polanyi-paradox, codification, automation, imitation
Does the primary text of Reed & DeFillippi (1990) support the assembled 'tacitness...causal ambiguity...barriers to imitation' quote as a continuous phrase?

question answered 2026-07-12 · causal-ambiguity, tacit-knowledge, strategy-literature, verification, sourcing-discipline
Polanyi's paradox is the shared root of the CANONIC ledger and the EUV moat: codification is what makes knowledge both automatable and copyable, so the tacit residue resists both

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · tacit-knowledge, polanyi-paradox, codification, automation, imitation