<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The purpose of this paper is to construct a typology of actors in the knowledge economy, based on the specificity of their activities. So far, almost all the researchers focused their interests on organizations and their management in the knowledge economy ignoring the actors who perform and make the progress of the new economy based primarily on intangible resources. The main criterion for this typology is the positioning of these actors with respect to knowledge, as an intangible resource of any economic activity. The whole spectrum of this typology is defined by the end actors who are the composers and the consumers. The composers create knowledge and transform personal knowledge into organizational knowledge, while the consumers are those who use it. In between, there are owners, administrators, and performers. As an extension, we may include in this typology the citizens as end possible knowledge users. Also, we perform an analysis of the characteristics of all these actors with respect to values, objectives, methods, and results. The contribution of the present paper results from the new perspective we offer in understanding the mechanisms and the dynamics of the knowledge economy.</p></abstract>

The purpose of this paper is to construct a typology of actors in the knowledge economy, based on the specificity of their activities. So far, almost all the researchers focused their interests on organizations and their management in the knowledge economy ignoring the actors who perform and make the progress of the new economy based primarily on intangible resources. The main criterion for this typology is the positioning of these actors with respect to knowledge, as an intangible resource of any economic activity. The whole spectrum of this typology is defined by the end actors who are the composers and the consumers. The composers create knowledge and transform personal knowledge into organizational knowledge, while the consumers are those who use it. In between, there are owners, administrators, and performers. As an extension, we may include in this typology the citizens as end possible knowledge users. Also, we perform an analysis of the characteristics of all these actors with respect to values, objectives, methods, and results. The contribution of the present paper results from the new perspective we offer in understanding the mechanisms and the dynamics of the knowledge economy.

Actors in the Knowledge Economy: A Typology

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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The purpose of this paper is to construct a typology of actors in the knowledge economy, based on the specificity of their activities. So far, almost all the...

Actors in the Knowledge Economy: A Typology

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 451 - 461

Received: Nov 11, 2020

Accepted: Dec 05, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mdke-2020-0029

Keywords
knowledge, knowledge economy, knowledge resources, knowledge actors, knowledge management

© 2020 Eduardo Tomé, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Actors in the Knowledge Economy: A Typology

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 451 - 461

Received: Nov 11, 2020

Accepted: Dec 05, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mdke-2020-0029

Keywordsknowledge, knowledge economy, knowledge resources, knowledge actors, knowledge management

© 2020 Eduardo Tomé, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
knowledge, knowledge economy, knowledge resources, knowledge actors, knowledge management