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<p>The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the academic advances in the knowledge management field, by increasing the understanding of the knowmad workforce. Knowledge economy represents the context in which organizations and individuals strive to learn continuously, to remain competitive, and to reach success. In this context, knowledge management joins other management specializations in the dedicated quest of optimizing organizational knowledge dynamics. Over the past decades, in close connection with unpredictable developments in all facets of our lives, which impact the business environment as well, a new typology of workers is being recognized in the knowledge management literature. The knowmads are emerging from the knowledge workers in a context of an intensified knowledge economy and they are developing skills and competencies that are suitable for the global markets, becoming autonomous, innovative, highly adaptable, and entrepreneurial members of the organizations, as this study proves. The research objective of this paper is to find and analyze the core conditions that favor the emergence of the knowmads from the knowledge workers. Through extensive literature review and by using data analysis software, key concepts are identified in close relation with knowmads. In the first part the intensification of the knowledge economy in Society 3.0 is analyzed from a critical perspective while, in the second part, the significant skills and competencies shift is being discussed. The working hypothesis of this research is that knowmads represent a new type of knowledge worker. Therefore, a comparison between the two worker groups from a skill, competencies, and attributes perspective was also implemented for increased methodological coherence. As this paper shows, in the intensified and global knowledge economy environment and under the forces of digitalization, technologization, new key competencies become essential within organizations. The holders of these competencies prove to be the knowmads, the new workers’ group emerging from the knowledge workers in the late 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p>
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The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the academic advances in the knowledge management field, by increasing the understanding of the knowmad workforce. Knowledge economy represents the context in which organizations and individuals strive to learn continuously, to remain competitive, and to reach success. In this context, knowledge management joins other management specializations in the dedicated quest of optimizing organizational knowledge dynamics. Over the past decades, in close connection with unpredictable developments in all facets of our lives, which impact the business environment as well, a new typology of workers is being recognized in the knowledge management literature. The knowmads are emerging from the knowledge workers in a context of an intensified knowledge economy and they are developing skills and competencies that are suitable for the global markets, becoming autonomous, innovative, highly adaptable, and entrepreneurial members of the organizations, as this study proves. The research objective of this paper is to find and analyze the core conditions that favor the emergence of the knowmads from the knowledge workers. Through extensive literature review and by using data analysis software, key concepts are identified in close relation with knowmads. In the first part the intensification of the knowledge economy in Society 3.0 is analyzed from a critical perspective while, in the second part, the significant skills and competencies shift is being discussed. The working hypothesis of this research is that knowmads represent a new type of knowledge worker. Therefore, a comparison between the two worker groups from a skill, competencies, and attributes perspective was also implemented for increased methodological coherence. As this paper shows, in the intensified and global knowledge economy environment and under the forces of digitalization, technologization, new key competencies become essential within organizations. The holders of these competencies prove to be the knowmads, the new workers’ group emerging from the knowledge workers in the late 21st century.

The Emergence of Knowmads from the Knowledge Workers

National University of Political Studies and Public Administration

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the academic advances in the knowledge management field, by increasing the understanding of the knowmad...

The Emergence of Knowmads from the Knowledge Workers

Published Online: Apr 13, 2021

Page range: 94 - 106

Received: Nov 12, 2020

Accepted: Feb 22, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mdke-2021-0007

Keywords
knowmads, Society 3.0, knowledge economy, competencies, knowledge workers

© 2021 Andra Nicoleta Iliescu, published by Sciendo

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

The Emergence of Knowmads from the Knowledge Workers

Published Online: Apr 13, 2021

Page range: 94 - 106

Received: Nov 12, 2020

Accepted: Feb 22, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mdke-2021-0007

Keywordsknowmads, Society 3.0, knowledge economy, competencies, knowledge workers

© 2021 Andra Nicoleta Iliescu, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
knowmads, Society 3.0, knowledge economy, competencies, knowledge workers