La participación de los trabajadores en la tecnología. El caso de la industria auxiliar del automóvil en Cataluña

Abstract

The participation of workers in the managing of technological innovation process is not a common phenomenon in developed countries. The empirical analysis of the Catalonian industry of automotive components confirms that the levels of participation of workers in this process are very low. In this article, the results of such a research are presented, showing the importance of the ideological and cultural conceptions of managers, as well as workers, as explaining factors. In base of the empirical information accumulated through the exploratory research, the author proposes a typology of firms according to how they deal the problem of the participation of workers in the technological innovation process.