Knowledge Resources Management and Intellectual Capital Creation as an Endogenous Source of the Local Government Units Potential in Poland

Managing local government units in the 21st century faces new challenged connected to the conditions of knowledge-based economy. Currently the greatest approval is gained by the view which states that the ability to manage knowledge becomes a truly deciding factor for the efficiency of economic processes. In the conditions of globalisation, free capital flow and dynamic development of the capital market and new financial instruments, the LGUs are forced to seek new paradigms for finance management, such as will focus – to a greatest extent than before – on diffusing information and knowledge, developing competences of key significance for the LGUs, developing financial knowledge among LGU employees and supporting organisational learning