PREMISES FOR CREATING KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN ROMANIA

Abstract

The transition to the knowledge-based economy in Romania is the main path towards obtaining a sustainable economic growth and may even be the feasible solution our country needs in order to exit the current economic crisis. The knowledge-based organizations are the main vector, a necessary and ireplaceable condition and factor for the creation of the knowledge economy, therefore every leader should be at least familiar with the premises needed to increase the number of these kind of organizations in Romania and sustain a propitious environment for their development. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify and unfold the premises that need to be fulfilled in order to facilitate Romania’s transition to the knowledge economy. To this end, following the macroeconomic and microeconomic situation, not only from an economical perspectrive, but also from a managerial one, there have been two categories of premises, which are actually conditioning elements for Romania’s transition to the knowledge economy. At macroeconomic level, the main premise is that of the need to substantiate (found), elaborate and implement a genuine strategy for the transition to the knowledge economy; at microeconomic level, the organizations need to embrace a strategic management, relocate their attention towards the human resources, receive support from the IT departments and give the proper importance to organizational culture and the processes related to change management. By emphasizing the details of these premises, the objectives of ilustrating Romania’s vulnerabillities and needs regarding the transition to the knowledge economy have been attained.

Keywords

• knowledge economy
• knowledge-based organization
• strategy
• organizational culture
• sustainability