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In the recent years, terms like knowledge society, intelligent, learning or knowledge based organizations are used more often. Related to these concepts, many studies underline the fact that organizations should act intelligently by learning and using their knowledge or by being just knowledgebased organizations. The majority of these studies are suffering from being too much philosophical in describing the organization of the future. This philosophical approach limits the possibility of comparison and analysis of organizations based on their potential of being more or less knowledge based. The purpose of this paper is to support the analysis of organizations based on their potential for acting intelligently. After the literature review, this paper provides a model for evaluating and identifying how much an organization could be included in the category of knowledge based organizations. It continues with the presentation of the proposed identification model and it concludes with the analysis results based on this model application in a Romanian company selected for the case study.
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Neagu, C.D. (2008). Knowledge Based Organization. In: Fischer-Hübner, S., Duquenoy, P., Zuccato, A., Martucci, L. (eds) The Future of Identity in the Information Society. Privacy and Identity 2007. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 262. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79026-8_28
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