António Moniz
Professor Associado com Agregação
Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Ed. VII, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2829-516 Caparica (email)
Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Ed. VII, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2829-516 Caparica (email)
Industrial rationalization represents a decisive moment of the strategic development of business activities in the last few years. In this sense, it is also a theoretical challenge to Industrial Sociology, since the dimensions, both technical and social, of that rationalization can be underlined. The analysis of the better-known different patterns of rationalization allows us a further knowledge of the main strategies for industrial modernization. Accordingly, this paper presents some results deriving from the application of those strategies. Finally, this paper gives a particular attention to the more recent tendencies of development of integrated systems of production, particularly of those focusing upon the social and organizational aspects of industrial rationalization.