New challenges in post-crisis management: Competitive or collaborative

Abstract

Many scientists tried to describe the characteristics of a network society, seen as the ultimate form of
the knowledge-based society. Very few tried to explain which would be the leverages to determine the
shift, and detail them on a multidimensional basis. This paper, as a step in a larger research, tries to
emphasize the most common conditions which lead to the triggering of the shift above mentioned,
some of the ways the companies’ management can follow to reach the desired competitive position and
some threats and opportunities which occur during the translations from the classical form of
organization to the networked economy.