%0 Journal Article %T ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN KNOWLEDGE-BASED FIRM %A VLADIMIR-CODRIN IONESCU %A VIOREL CORNESCU %J Challenges of the Knowledge Society %D 2011 %I Nicolae Titulescu University of Bucharest %X For sustainable competitive advantages gain, modern organizations, knowledge-based, must promote a proactive and flexible management, permanently connected to change which occur in business environment. Contextually, the paper analyses impact factors of the environment which could determine a firm to initiate a programme strategic organizational change. Likewise, the paper identifies the main organizational variables involved in a changing process and emphasizes the essential role which managers and entrepreneurs have in substantiation, elaboration and implementation of organizational change models. %K knowledge-based firm %K organizational change %K impact factors %K organizational variables %K competitive advantage %U http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2011_articles/index.php?dir=02_economy%2F&download=cks_2011_economy_art_040.pdf