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Intellectual Capital in Romania: A
Case Study
Constantin BRATIANU
Simona VASILACHE
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
Agenda
Intellectual capital in transition economies
Intellectual capital in Romania Case study: Research Centre for
Intellectual Capital Conclusions
Intellectual
Capital
Human
Capital
Structural
Capital
Relational
Capital
Static structure for the organizational IC
Human
Capital
Knowledge Intelligence Values
Operational structure of the human capital
Individual Knowledge
Knowledge Structure
Explicit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Rational Mind
Non-Rational Mind
Knowledge Transfer Process
Direct Experience
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence
Linguistic intelligence Logical-mathematical intelligence Musical intelligence Spatial intelligence Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence Naturalist intelligence Personal (intrapersonal and interpersonal) intelligence Existential intelligence
VALUES
Values = Deeply held ideas of members about what is right or wrong, fair or unfair – anything that has personal worth or meaning
We are living in a given culture, which is defined by a set of fundamental values
We learn these values through education in family, school, church and society
Values constitute the reference system of our decisions
Structural
Capital
Knowledge Intelligence Values
Operational structure of the structural capital
Relational
Capital
Knowledge Intelligence Values
Operational structure of the relational capital
Intellectual
Capital
Human
Capital
Structural
Capital
Relational
Capital
K I V K KI IV V
Intellectual
Capital
Human
Capital
Structural
Capital
Relational
Capital
Knowledge Intelligence Values
Organizational Knowledge
Organizational Intelligence
Organizational Values
Tacit
Explicit
Cognitive
Emotional
Business
Social
Organizational Intellectual Capital
Intellectual Capital
Organizational Knowledge
Organizational Intelligence
Organizational Values
Tacit
Explicit
Cognitive
Emotional
Business
Social
Intellectual Capital
?
Knowledge Intelligence Values
INTEGRATORS
Organizational Intellectual Capital
Integrators
An integrator is a powerful field of forces capable of combining two or more elements into a new entity, based on interdependence and synergy. These elements may have a physical or virtual nature, and they must poses the capacity of interacting in a controlled way.
Knowledge Intelligence Values
Integrators
IC
Knowledge Intelligence Values
Tacit
Explicit
Cognitive
Emotional
Business
Social
Individual level
Organizational level
Intellectual capital in transition economies
Transition from planned to market economies in CEE countries
Organizational restructuring Organizational learning
TRANSITION: HOW ?
State property Private property
Controlled prices Liberalization of prices
Planned economyFree market
economy
A TRANSITION PROCESS
Time
Change
Initial state
Final state
Known
Unknown
The production process
Management Workers Union
Communist Party
Organization
Intellectual capital in Romania
Barriers to intellectual capital development: The ideology barrier
Manual workers versus knowledge workers (“We are working, not thinking”)
Reminiscences of this “activist” mentality – “don’t think, act!”
Hard-to-die proletarian mentality - “the way we do things over here”
Intellectual capital in Romania
Barriers to intellectual capital development The inertial barrier
Forces which block change Structural inertia of Romanian organizations These “core rigidities” are intangible, which
makes them difficult to identify.
Intellectual capital in Romania
Barriers to intellectual capital development: The controlling barrier
Hypertrophy of the control function Applied to people, not to processes Irrelevant information resulted from the control
process.
Intellectual capital in Romania
Initiatives:
Workshops and training programs in KM KM lectures in master and PhD programs Research centres in Intellectual Capital
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Created in 2007, taking as a model the Research Centre for Intellectual Capital at the InHolland University, lead by professor Daan Andriessen
Initiated and coordinated by professor Constantin Bratianu
Includes experienced researchers, as well as young PhD candidates, in the field of intellectual capital
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Barriers:
Most research centers exist only virtually, as appendices of the respective chairs and departments
No legal and financial independence Research equipments, acquired by research grants
by the members of the centres, enter the “public domain” and are used, in a socialist manner, by all the members of the department, irrespective of their research involvement.
Mixture of teaching & research activity
lack of specialized personnel
Inertial forces of academic management
Limitations to collaboration, as professors teaching in a certain department will almost automatically be affiliated to the corresponding research centre
One faculty member can belong to one and only one research centre
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Affiliation:
UNESCO Chair for Business Administration
The Head of the Chair is also Director of the Research Centre
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Mission:
knowledge generation through basic and applied research, technological development and innovation in the field of intellectual capital, knowledge to be disseminated by publications, courses and conferences
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Key priorities:
organizational intellectual capital, strategic management, knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational intelligence, all connected with the requirements of a knowledge economy, as set on the Lisbon Agenda
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Structure:
Director: Professor Constantin Bratianu, PhDDirector’s assistant: Assist. Simona Vasilache
Members: Professor Nicolae Al. Pop, PhDAssistant Professor Mihaela Prejmerean, PhDAssistant Professor Adriana Agapie, PhDAssistant Professor Alexandru Agapie, PhDAssist. Ionela JianuAssist. Anca MandruleanuAssist. Corina Pelau
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
STRENGHTS
- visionary leadership, an inspiring mission statement;
- young, dynamic team, with growth potential;
- international visibility of the experienced researchers in the centre;
- involvement in six on-going national projects, and in one international, FP 7, project;
- internal recognition in the university;
- good correlation with the university curriculum, having a course in Knowledge Management at the master level;
- papers accepted and presented at some important international conferences;
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
STRENGHTS (cont’d)
- direct involvement in editing an international journal on Management & Marketing, with a strong emphasis on Intellectual capital;
- direct involvement in organizing an annual international conference on business excellence, with a dedicated workshop on learning organizations;
- integration of teaching and research, since professor Nicolae Al. Pop is the dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, and professor Constantin Bratianu is head of the Chair UNESCO for Business Administration.
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
WEAKNESSES
- not enough national and international recognition, due to its newness;
- low managerial decision power due to the university research management structure and traditions;
- working in a bureaucratic system;
- not having a good web page yet, independent of that of the faculty;
- not enough financial power to enlarge our international participation to conferences dedicated to this field of research;
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
OPPORTUNITIES
- European projects;
- new frameworks for research;
- the possibility to get accredited by the National Research Council, which creates better awareness;
- collaboration with similar research centres, at national and international levels;
- involvement of undergraduate and post-graduate students in the centre’s activities;
- good cooperation with the Research Centre for Intellectual Capital, INHolland University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- international conferences on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management.
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
THREATS
- the attractiveness of the topic, which makes researchers without any tradition in the field to claim rights in this domain, and to mystify its concepts and methods;
- the economic crisis which is propagated from USA to Europe.
Case Study: Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Doctoral research themes:
Intellectual capital evaluation in universities Organizational learning development
strategies in teaching and research hospitals Integrators for organizational intellectual
capital
Conclusions
Realistic mission of the Research Centre for Intellectual Capital
Emerging initiatives in the field in Romania
Collaborative opportunities Still, significant inertia and mentality
gaps between East and West.
QUESTIONS?
Thank you for
your attention!
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