The Business Organization As Main “Actor” In The Knowledge Society

The main aim of this paper was to identify what is the place of business organizations in the knowledge society and what impact has their activity on the evolution of humanity by analyzing the opinion of different authors regarding the main topic of the paper. Therefore, studying some of the specific literature allowed us to establish the importance of the economic actors. In this paper we present some aspects regarding the position of business organization taking into the consideration the progress registered by the humanity in different ares of its evolution. So we have focused our attention on the knowledge society as the current framework for business and what really means knowledge and how this resources can bring high performance for companies. Therefor, we have shown that in this era companies need to find new ways of doing business, of coordinating their activities, by applying knowledge management. Given that we have tried to highlight how important are companies in the era of knowledge because they represent the actors that are focused on developing strategies that increase knowledge and invest in research more than other institutions. We also have noticed that some companies are even stronger than some countries if we analyse their economic result, fact that underline that these institution can have a major contribution in the future progress of the society.