Abstract:

 The present paper aims to determine the way in which the concepts of knowledge industries, knowledge occupations, knowledge society, knowledge economy and knowledge workers were presented in the specialized literature, from the moment they were enounced and what were the effects they produced on the current economy. We consider that it is very important to present the definitions that we identified in the specialized literature regarding the above listed terms. Moreover, the paper aims to analyze how knowledge workers have influenced the changes that have taken place in organizations operating the knowledge economy and, at the same time, how organizations have understood to take action in order to allow knowledge workers to reach their maximum potential. We also intend to identify the "pillars" on which the knowledge economy is built and what were the transformations within the organizations which supported the birth of the knowledge economy. In this paper, we aimed to analyze the structure of the scientific papers that covered this topic, using the bibliometric analysis method. The data needed for performing this analysis was extracted both from the Web of Science and Scopus. Based on the collected data, the evolution in time of the number of publications that approached this subject and the countries where these publications were present were analyzed. Also, it was analyzed the intensity of the links between the most used keywords in relation to knowledge economy.