Review of Productive Pragmatism: Can industrial democracy be viable under neoliberalist capital conditions?

I review the two cases of industrial democracy in Norway and Mondragon using multiple perspectives. From a system thinking perspective, I use a General Systems Theory (GST), Viable Systems Model and Soft Systems Methodology. From a management perspective, I examine how institutional entrepreneurship...

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Published inInternational journal of action research Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 62 - 73
Main Author Sankaran, Shankar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
German
Published Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich 31.05.2023
Subjects
Case studies
Cybernetics
Industrial democracy
System theory
Work environment
Norway
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Summary:I review the two cases of industrial democracy in Norway and Mondragon using multiple perspectives. From a system thinking perspective, I use a General Systems Theory (GST), Viable Systems Model and Soft Systems Methodology. From a management perspective, I examine how institutional entrepreneurship plays a role in creating new ways of coping with regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive forces impacting the two cases. I then view the two economies from a governmentality perspective on how they deal with power and autonomy. My analysis demonstrates that the two democracies have coped well with internal and external forces. I also argue that industrial democracy would face challenges in dealing with new ways of working that have emerged due to the influence of technology.
ISSN:1861-1303
1861-9916
DOI:10.3224/ijar.v19i1.05