Sociedad del conocimiento en Argentina: el caso de una empresa-red, Tenaris

Alejandro Artopoulos

doi:10.48160/18517072re29.251

Authors

Alejandro Artopoulos Universidad de San Andrés

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re29.251

Keywords:

innovation, organization-network, knowledge society

Abstract

This paper is about the case of Tenaris, a multinational corporation from Argentina that became a leader in the Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) market, a strategic supply for oil & gas sector, with 40% market share in 2007. We can state that Tenaris reinvent industrial capitalism from periphery. It is an unusual case of an emergent giant that no only adapted itself to globalization but it also took full advantage of the transition to informational capitalism. The case enlightens the performance of Tenaris showing the innovation of network form of the organization structure based in knowledge production, that we call “network-organization”. This piece is first step of a research program that study cases of different sectors with the objective of analyze the components of the network form of the organization.

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