Particular Aspects in the Intellectual Capital Management of the Romanian SMEs

In our days, there are two approaches about the application of the concept of Knowledge Management. In the Western Europe we put emphasis on: (1) explicit knowledge, (2) measuring and managing existing knowledge, (3) treating the organization as a vehicle for the information processing. In Japan, KM it is understood mostly by 1) highlighting tacit knowledge, 2) creating new knowledge, 3) extensive participation of all the members of an organization, whether in private or in public sector, the crystallization of a learning oriented culture from the perspective of a living organism, able to create a circuit of continuous innovation. In conclusion, this new management concept has two important dimensions:(1) the assessment of knowledge; (2) a judicious management of the human capital. The economic environment where the SMEs are competing prove a continuous process of changing. Switching from a post-industrial based economy to a knowledge based economy has changed the way the small businesses manage their assets. The knowledge based economy, which includes today even the SMEs from Romania, alongside with other types of organizations, puts a great emphasis on the exploitation of the intellectual capital. Each country, company and individual depends increasingly more on knowledge, which materializes in: patents, skills, technologies, and customer information about suppliers. At the level of the SMEs, the technology and the associated processes act upon the individual knowledge, and especially upon the side of the intellectual tacit component. The management and the leadership are a powerful integrator in the nonlinear segment. The leadership is important by its power to act on knowledge, on the intelligence and on the individual values. The organizational vision and mission are also interesting integrators, which act mainly on the individual emotional intelligence. The organizational culture appears as a powerful integrator, because it acts mainly on the individual intelligence and on the values and creating models of the organizational behavior. The main category of the incorporated analysis is: an elementary analysis of the intellectual capital issues in the SMEs from the North-Easter region of the country. Also, in this paper, there are addressed two very present and major categories of problems, such as: the entrepreneurs' characterization in Romania, especially for those in the above mentioned region; the perception of the latest economic and social developments proved by the entrepreneurs in Romania and their impact on the potential organizational research and innovation