ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION - STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE OF ORGANIZATION

Alina Luca; Luminita Mihaela Lupu; Ionut Viorel Herghiligiu

doi:10.12955/cbup.v4.753

Alina Luca Department of Engineering and Management, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi
Luminita Mihaela Lupu Department of Engineering and Management, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi
Ionut Viorel Herghiligiu Lupu, Department of Engineering and Management, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v4.753

Keywords: knowledge management, organizational knowledge acquisition, organizational strategy

Abstract

Knowledge is now considered the most important resource of an organization, with organizational knowledge acquisition identified in literature as a process that can determine the difference between success and failure of an organization. It is considered necessary for each organization to manage the acquisition of knowledge as a central element in business continuity planning, optimizing costs, and organizational objectives. The main goal of this paper is to develop a framework for organizational knowledge acquisition. This purpose is relevant because, until now, the literature encompasses the problem of organizational knowledge acquisition through human resources, from the perspective of staff ability to learn and implement new concepts, but not from the perspective of an organizational strategy. An organization is stressed by economic and financial alliances and by clients and suppliers. These constrain managers from identifying new solutions to problems. This study is relevant for business because it analyzes an important direction for the development of strategies in the context of market globalization and for academic research because there has been little research previously in this direction.

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