TRANSLATION AND AGENCY - A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANISATION

This paper purports to give an overview of translators as agents and their agency which should be viewed as a knowledge-based organisation in today's globalized world. In our approach we will draw on Translation Studies (Baker and Saldanha, 2009), in general, and the situation of the profession in Romania with its recent developments, in particular (namely the proposal for a new controversial law which all legal translators and their agencies should obey). Last but not least, our aim is to account for translators as agents and translation agency in our country in the context of ethical practice and the increasingly stressful, demanding challenges of the job which is constantly frowned upon by the general public in the era of google translation.