
Constantin BratianuBucharest University of Economic Studies | ASE
Constantin Bratianu
Prof.Dr.Dr. Dr.H.C.
Professor of Strategic Management and Knowledge Management
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Introduction
My research focuses on strategic thinking, organizational knowledge dynamics, knowledge creation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, knowledge risk, knowledge management, intellectual capital, organizational learning, learning organizations and knowledge strategies.
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January 2005 - present
Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti/ Bucharest University of Economic Studies
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- Professor (Full)
Description
- My research focuses on organizational knowledge dynamics and the entropic intellectual capital model.
Publications
Publications (279)
Purpose
This article aims to delve into the connections between DNA, cultural intelligence (CQ) and knowledge dynamics (KD) as native ingredients of the global mindset of multicultural managers and leaders. Cognitive science and knowledge management researchers show that business process decision-making is not entirely rational, based on explicit k...
Purpose
Practical wisdom involves making sound decisions in complex, uncertain situations by addressing emotions, moral virtues and context-rational knowledge. This issue is crucial for SMEs when there is a sudden increase in the dynamics of emotions or moral virtues, particularly in rural companies. Rural managers need practical wisdom (PW) to eff...
Business internationalization and globalization revealed the new challenge of managing across different cultures and creating a new integrator for the employees of different emotional states and value systems. The new integrator is multicultural leadership, and its main ingredients are emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and cultural in...
Business internationalization and globalization naturally led to the need to manage across cultures and develop new competencies for leaders. One of these competencies is cultural intelligence (CQ) that is actually a meta-competence because it incorporates rational, emotional, spiritual, and social intelligence. Cultural intelligence expresses the...
Can spirituality unlock the full potential of your organisation?
"Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics" offers a groundbreaking exploration of how spiritual practices, wisdom traditions, and contemplative approaches can revolutionise organisational effectiveness and well-being. This seminal work brings together cutting-edge research from a distingu...
The purpose of this paper is to present some conceptual models for the knowledge translation process in its extended semantic dimension. Knowledge translation is usually understood through its primary meaning of translating from one language into another language. However, knowledge translation is a concept with a larger semantic universe that has...
The purpose of this chapter is to explore the connections between the theory of knowledge fields, knowledge dynamics, and spiritual knowledge and wisdom within organizational contexts. The chapter presents the main ideas of the theory of knowledge fields and its new attributes in understanding organizational knowledge dynamics. The new paradigm is...
Knowledge management is an intrinsic part of the managerial process and not a substitute for it. It is that part that is focused on managing intangible resources like knowledge, ideas, brands, and many other similar entities. Although this assertion is clear and looks like an extension of classical management, many knowledge management projects fai...
The booklet introduces you to the concept and applications of Knowledge Strategies.
If you want the book please write a message to: constantin.bratianu@gmail.com
I shall send it to you with great pleasure.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how managers should design the company’s knowledge strategies. That is a new dimension of knowledge management and it can be performed by using design thinking and the theory of knowledge fields and knowledge dynamics. The analysis is based on a critical literature review and on the known-unknowm matrix devel...
“The Emergence of Neuroleadership in the Knowledge Economy” explores the field of neuroleadership in today’s constantly changing economy, highlighting the transition from traditional leadership to neuroleadership. Neuroleadership renders itself as a novel approach to the leadership theory, which brings together insights from neuroscience, psycholog...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the transition phenomenon from smart organizations toward wise organizations based on changing the paradigm of decision making from economic to sustainability criteria. Classical business education was focused on profit maximization principle, and business strategies were designed to meet that objective. Mich...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of knowledge
vulnerabilities on knowledge risks and to analyse their intricate connections within the
knowledge management systems. It is a new topic in knowledge management which is
requested by the accelerated process of digitalization and the exponential development
of the AI programs. There...
Invitation to publish in this Special Issue of Sustainability
This edited volume explores the challenges and opportunities of knowledge management (KM) in the post-pandemic world. Intangibles have become dominant resources, and their effective management is key to navigating the complexity of the new business environment. The book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a different aspect of KM: complex...
The book celebrates the 10th anniversary of the International Association of Knowledge Management. It revisits the past achievements and their implications for future directions of the field. It also highlights the role of knowledge management in dealing with challenges of innovation and sustainability.
Knowledge dynamics means variation of knowledge in time and space. Over time, knowledge levels can increase through accumulation, or decrease through loss. Also, knowledge may change its quality through transformation from one form into another. In space, knowledge can move from one place to another one, generating a flow (i.e., knowledge flow). Th...
Knowledge dynamics means variation of knowledge in time and space. Over time, knowledge levels can increase through accumulation, or decrease through loss. Also, knowledge may change its quality through transformation from one form into another. In space, knowledge can move from one place to another one, generating a flow (i.e., knowledge flow). Th...
Knowledge plays a pivotal role as a strategic asset for organizations that aim to improve and sustain competitive advantage. Despite the implementation of knowledge management systems to promote knowledge sharing, many employees exhibit knowledge-hiding behavior, deliberately withholding crucial information in the workplace. In this context, the cu...
The purpose of this paper is to perform a semantic analysis of wisdom management that constitutes the driving force for a wise company. That is a company whose goal goes beyond the economic paradigm based on profit maximization. It is a company where managers apply practical wisdom in their decision making processes. Aristotle used to call this pra...
Cultural intelligence (CQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) represent key multicultural leadership competencies in the new global business environment. This paper aims to present a comparative quantitative study concerning emotional and cultural intelligence in the USA and Romania, backed by a brief geo-linked bibliometric literature review. The bib...
In the literature there are many and different interpretations of the concept knowledge dynamics that creates a real difficulty in working with it. There is no comprehensive study of all these meanings and interpretations attributed to knowledge dynamics. The purpose of this paper is to explore the semantic spectrum of the concept of knowledge dyna...
The paper is analyzing the purpose of intelligence structures dedicated to national security system by comparison with those dedicated to business.
Although there is a long history of searching for the road from knowledge to wisdom, there is no final and clear result. In fact, there are multiple ways of starting from knowledge and reaching wisdom due to the complexity of the semantic domains of both concepts. In addition, there are different perspectives on interpreting these conceptual maps,...
The purpose of this paper is to perform a semantic analysis of wisdom management that constitutes the driving force for a wise company. That is a company whose goal goes beyond the economic paradigm based on profit maximization. It is a company where managers apply practical wisdom in their decision making processes. Aristotle used to call this pra...
According to Harvard Business Review, companies with higher diversity experienced 19% higher revenues, but in the meantime, 57% of employees feel their businesses must assiduously concentrate on diversity and inclusion plans. This article aims to present a bibliometric study of diversity and inclusion (DI) in the COVID years 2019-2022. Our analysis...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the generation of civic and public (C&P) engagement as an integrative outcome of a proper balance between emotional, rational and spiritual knowledge, via the mediation of interpersonal competencies.
Design/methodology/approach
The empirical analysis relies on a questionnaire-based survey conduct...
This paper aims to present some conceptual models for the knowledge translation process in its extended semantic dimension. Knowledge translation is usually understood through its primary meaning of translating from one language into another language. However, knowledge translation is a concept with a larger semantic universe used in recent years i...
Research background: Business organizations are open to information and knowledge fluxes crossing their borders from inside out and from outside inside. Also, organizational knowledge may have an internal generation of knowledge, and knowledge sinks. Understanding this organizational knowledge dynamics provides a new perspective on knowledge vulner...
The purpose of this paper is to present a bibliometric analysis of the literature, focusing on knowledge dynamics in managerial decision making. The motivation of our research is based on the new theory of knowledge fields and knowledge dynamics and its influence on decision making in business and management. The methodology used is based on a bibl...
The purpose of the present study is to capture the specific forces that are intensifying in the COVID-19 context, which stimulate the adaptation of some knowledge workers characteristics into mutated traits – the traits of knowmads. Also, the present study aims at exploring how this transformation is presented in the literature. Defined by John Mor...
The purpose of this paper is to explain knowledge strategies and what is their role in designing business strategies. Knowledge strategies represent a new concept in knowledge management systems and it became more important during the COVID-19 crisis when managers were confronted with the absence of knowledge and the lack of understanding how to de...
Knowledge is a strategic resource of any organization and its deployment is critical in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. Knowledge strategies were born at the intersection of strategic thinking and knowledge management. Strategic thinking is a mental process of understanding the future and, based on that understanding, of searching fo...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of knowledge dynamics and phronesis in performing family business and show that both constructs constitute core competencies for these specific organizations within the Romanian economic environment. Knowledge dynamics have different interpretations depending on the metaphorical thinking used in conc...
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The purpose of the present research is to introduce a combined framework that integrates innovative work behavior, product innovation process and customer knowledge management; then, to explore the mediating effect of customer knowledge management in the relationship between innovative work behavior and the product innovation process.
Desi...
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This paper aims to explore the relationships among several key constructs which link the individual’s motivation for knowledge acquisition to his affiliation with online knowledge networks, to further access the intellectual capital of the network as a prerequisite for organizational achievement.
Design/methodology/approach
An online surve...
The two COVID-19 pandemic years enhanced the work from anywhere phenomenon and set the virtual multicultural professional environment as a new normal. In these circumstances, the purpose of this paper is to bring up a bibliometric analysis focusing on cultural intelligence (CQ) and multicultural leadership (ML). The study, performed with Nvivo and...
This paper aims to explore how researchers studied the role and implications of the concepts of vulnerability and risk in direct relation to knowledge management systems. Our approach is based on a bibliometric analysis of the papers in the last 20 years and indexed in Scopus using the specialized software VOSviewer. Although knowledge risks have b...
Special Issue in Sustainability on the generic topic of "Knowledge Management and Business Development".
The paper aims to presents the main challenges the Romanian universities face immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic to adapt to the new normal of political, economic, cultural, social, and environmental life. The research is based on a critical review of the literature and on extracting the hard lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic-induced changes...
Proceedings of the Strategica ninth international conference (October 2021)
The goal of this study is to examine knowledge management’s function as a mediator between academic management and business education. Knowledge management evolved in the last decades as an important component of the organizational management that focuses on intangible resources. In the knowledge economy, knowledge became a strategic resource and i...
Customer knowledge management (CKM) is a relatively new research domain, aiming at exploring the potential of customer knowledge for the open innovation process of companies. The present paper aims at performing a complex analysis of the serial mediation phenomenon of the impact of CKM on sustainable product innovation (SPI) by innovative work beha...
The paper aims to present a systematic literature review focusing on self-management and cultural intelligence as the new competencies for knowmads. According to John W. Moravec, a knowmoad is a knowledge worker who develops the skills to work with anybody, anytime and anywhere. A knowmad is not a captive employee in a given company but an independ...
Knowledge building is a social process that is driven by the willingness of people to share their expertise and create new knowledge. Scientific Communities of Practice (CoPs) are communities of professors and researchers whose aim is to foster scientific knowledge generation. In the KM literature, research concerning this kind of CoPs has been sub...
Knowledge management emerged as a direct result of developing the knowledge economy and the information technology that enables complex data and information processing [...]
Placing the issue of interdisciplinarity within a complexity framework, the current paper aims to explore different facets of interdisciplinary research (IDR). The theoretical and empirical analysis revolves around the main factors influencing IDR abilities and achievements, that is, the propelling context, attitude and further awareness of thinkin...
Knowledge management developed in the last decades as a dynamic symbiosis between science and art with significant implications on business and business education. Knowledge management operates within the organizational management, but it focuses on intangible resources, which are distinguished from the tangible ones as a result of their abstractio...
This paper aims to perform a semantic analysis of the knowledge dynamics concept and to propose a framework for the semantic clusters used in knowledge management. Knowledge is an abstract term without correspondence with any physical object. Knowledge can be understood through metaphorical thinking. Metaphors used in explaining knowledge contribut...
The purpose of this paper is to present a knowledge management approach to complex crises, having as a reference the multiple crises generated by COVID-19, crises we are living with, and for which we cannot anticipate a specific end due to the knowledge absence concerning this complexity. A complex crisis is a system crisis that induces new crises...
This study addresses the special context of Communities of Practice (CoPs) in the case of scientists and academics, which is still a little studied environment. The paper considers the case of Scientific Associations and, particularly, the International Association for Knowledge Management (IAKM). As will be examined in the paper, IAKM (www.iakm.ne...
The pandemic of COVID‐19 is considered the most complex global process generated so far due to its unprecedented power of disruption, interconnection, and lockdowns in all the domains of our life, from health to economy, education, research, culture, sports, and social isolation. The COVID‐19 crisis came like any other natural disaster, finding peo...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the complexity of the COVID-19 crisis by using the grounded theory approach. It is a new approach based on a data set constituted from published papers, reports delivered by official organizations or research institutes, working papers, and public information in media. Each of these documents presents dat...
Message from the Editors
Preparing for Tomorrow, Today
When we proposed in 2019 the topic for the 2020 edition of the Strategica Conference we aimed to challenge the academic community to think about the future in an interdisciplinary way. We launched several questions, such as What does the future hold for people, organizations, networks, societie...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of knowledge risk on the business
sustainability of firms. In the knowledge economy, knowledge is a strategic resource of any
firm, and it contributes significantly to the organizational performance and its competitive
advantage. Knowledge risk is generated by knowledge absence, loss, leakage,...
The purpose of this paper is to present the evolution of the concept of entropy from engineering to knowledge management, going through information theory, linguistic entropy, and economic entropy. The concept of entropy was introduced by Rudolf Clausius in thermodynamics in 1865 as a measure of heat transfer between two solid bodies which have dif...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the challenges universities have during crazy times and to show how to design knowledge strategies to navigate successfully through the changing economic landscape. Crazy times mean times of rapid and unpredictable changes in the economic environment, times of crises, and disruptive phenomena. For such kind o...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the latent variables which support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in becoming learning organizations. These latent variables represent abstract ideas that cannot be measured directly in practice, and they need to be explored by using different sets of other variables or indicators defined specifica...
This Call for Papers invites you for a Special Issue in the international journal Sustainability on the following topic: Knowledge Management & Business Education. Deadline: 30 October 2020.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the influences of different types of knowledge and their inherent dynamics on the effectiveness of the decision-making (DM) process. Knowledge dynamics (KD) is envisioned through the lens of the knowledge fields theory while effective DM process is objectivised via organisational appreciation and rewa...
The fast and unpredictable changes in the business environment lead to significant changes in the future job market. For current business students, the future will offer many new opportunities for their employment but, at the same time, it will also create many threats disguised in the disappearing jobs. Business education centered mainly on knowle...
The purpose of this paper is to perform a critical analysis of the organizational knowledge dynamics models in a strategic perspective, based on metaphorical thinking, strategic thinking and the known-unknown matrix. Metaphorical thinking is necessary because the semantic field of the knowledge concept depends on the metaphor used in explaining it....
The primary purpose of this research is to present the evolution and current state of knowledge regarding the dematerialization of banking products and services in the digital age. The paper discusses the central issues regarding the dematerialization of money, the dematerialization of securities and the dematerialization of the contract, trends wi...
Call for Papers for the track I am chairing for the Business Systems Laboratory Symposium, 20-22 January, Alicante, Spain. It is a multidisciplinary international conference promoting systems thinking, and I invite all researchers in the field of knowledge dynamics and knowledge management who can think out of the box to join me in this challenging...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the knowledge dynamics process based on the energy metaphor and the thermodynamics framework. Knowledge dynamics is analyzed as a transformational process that goes beyond the Newtonian logic used to date.
Design/methodology/approach
The research design is based on metaphorical thinking, critical ana...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the knowledge entropy processes within organizations and how they are reflected in the knowledge management and organizational intellectual capital. Entropy is a very powerful concept, which can be found today in almost any branch of science and technology. It was introduced by Rudolf Clausius in 1865 in Ther...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the complexity of designing knowledge ecosystems for business education based on the theory of knowledge fields and knowledge dynamics. That means to change the paradigm of university education based on the traditional rigid curriculum into a new paradigm based on adequate knowledge ecosystems. The new paradi...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the limitations induced in Knowledge Management by the processes of linear