Intellectual Capital in Romania: A Case Study

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Intellectual Capital in Romania A Case Study

• Constantin BRATIANU
• Simona VASILACHE
• Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

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Agenda

• Intellectual capital in transition economies
• Intellectual capital in Romania
• Case study Research Centre for Intellectual
  Capital
• Conclusions

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Intellectual Capital
Structural Capital
Relational Capital
Human Capital
Static structure for the organizational IC
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Human Capital
Intelligence
Values
Knowledge
Operational structure of the human capital
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Individual Knowledge

• Knowledge Structure

Knowledge Transfer Process
Rational Mind
Explicit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Direct Experience
Non-Rational Mind
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Gardners Multiple Intelligence

• Linguistic intelligence
• Logical-mathematical intelligence
• Musical intelligence
• Spatial intelligence
• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
• Naturalist intelligence
• Personal (intrapersonal and interpersonal)
  intelligence
• Existential intelligence

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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

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Structural Capital
Intelligence
Values
Knowledge
Operational structure of the structural capital
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Relational Capital
Intelligence
Values
Knowledge
Operational structure of the relational capital
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Intellectual Capital
Human Capital
Structural Capital
Relational Capital
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V
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Intellectual Capital
Human Capital
Structural Capital
Relational Capital
Knowledge
Intelligence
Values
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Organizational Intellectual Capital
Intellectual Capital
Organizational Knowledge
Organizational Intelligence
Organizational Values
Tacit
Cognitive
Business
Social
Explicit
Emotional
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Intellectual Capital
Organizational Knowledge
Organizational Intelligence
Organizational Values
Tacit
Cognitive
Business
Social
Explicit
Emotional
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Values
Intelligence
Knowledge
INTEGRATORS
Organizational Intellectual Capital
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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.

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Individual level
Knowledge
Intelligence
Values
Integrators
IC
Knowledge
Intelligence
Values
Tacit
Cognitive
Business
Social
Explicit
Emotional
Organizational level
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Intellectual capital in transition economies

• Transition from planned to market economies in
  CEE countries
• Organizational restructuring
• Organizational learning

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TRANSITION HOW ?
State property
Private property
Liberalization of prices
Controlled prices
Free market economy
Planned economy
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A TRANSITION PROCESS
Change
Unknown
Final state
Known
Initial state
Time
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Communist Party Organization
Management
Workers Union
The production process
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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
  dont think, act!
• Hard-to-die proletarian mentality - the way we
  do things over here

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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.

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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.

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Intellectual capital in Romania

• Initiatives
• Workshops and training programs in KM
• KM lectures in master and PhD programs
• Research centres in Intellectual Capital

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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

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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.

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Case Study Research Centre for Intellectual
Capital

• 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

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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

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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

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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

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Case Study Research Centre for Intellectual
Capital

• Structure
• Director Professor Constantin Bratianu, PhD
• Directors assistant Assist.
  Simona Vasilache
• Members Professor Nicolae Al. Pop, PhD
• Assistant Professor Mihaela Prejmerean,
  PhD
• Assistant Professor Adriana Agapie, PhD
• Assistant Professor Alexandru Agapie,
  PhD
• Assist. Ionela Jianu
• Assist. Anca Mandruleanu
• Assist. Corina Pelau

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Capital
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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

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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.

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Thank you for your attention!