ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN KNOWLEDGE-BASED FIRM

Abstract

For sustainable competitive advantages gain, modern organizations, knowledge-based, must promote a proactive and flexible management, permanently connected to change which occur in business environment. Contextually, the paper analyses impact factors of the environment which could determine a firm to initiate a programme strategic organizational change. Likewise, the paper identifies the main organizational variables involved in a changing process and emphasizes the essential role which managers and entrepreneurs have in substantiation, elaboration and implementation of organizational change models.

Keywords

• knowledge-based firm
• organizational change
• impact factors
• organizational variables
• competitive advantage