Cambio tecnológico y redes formales e informales en empresas argentinas

Abstract

Argentina's return to productive investment is largely concentrated in the privatized companies, which change their technology in accordance with two opposed modalities: systematic modernization or revalorization of the existing equipment. The first variation -exemplified by the national telephone network - renders the knowledge and experience accumulated by the State-owned company obsolete, and it is for this reason -we argue- that the new owners of the telephone company invest massively in the transference of technology, in the development of training schemes and in the creation of formal educational cooperation networks for training personnel. In the second variation pre-existing knowledge is still necessary to the extent that de-burocratization and the reassessment of responsibilities have become practically synonymous