Editor: Marguerite Newcomb E-learning as a Strategy of Acquiring a Company’s Intellectual Capital

In today’s world more attention is paid to training employees. A trained employee is the source of competitive advantage over other companies functioning in the sector. By training the employee we create and, at the same time, trigger the increase of intellectual capital in the organization. This article aims at analyzing the relations that occur between the training, taking into particular consideration the e-learning training and the increase of intellectual capital of the companies trained. Training, as one of the fundamental methods of creating the intellectual capital of the company, can be carried out by means of several strategies. Training employees by specialized companies, which in order to do that use different kinds of forms, including e-learning, is one of them. Rela-tively few companies, however, decide to train their employees using e-learning technology. In practice, the most common strategy is training the employees using a blended-learning strategy, which means a strategy that is supplemented with meetings led by a coach. Both, the organiza-tions training the employees using e-learning, as well as blended-learning technology are the sub-ject of the analysis presented in this article