La emergencia de la comunidad gerencial en la Argentina. Una mirada comparativa.

• SZLECHTER, DIEGO ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento

     Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Revista del Centro de Estudios de Sociología del Trabajo, ISSN-e 1852-494X, ISSN 1852-4648, Nº. 5, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: REVISTA DEL CESOT), págs. 3-46
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  • Emergency of managerial Community in Argentina. A comparative Overview
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    Este artículo analiza el surgimiento de una categoría socio profesional que llegó con cierta demora a nuestra región, en relación con países de Europa y los Estados Unidos. Aunque partimos de un abordaje cercano a la sociología, tomamos como base de análisis la perspectiva historiográfica chandleriana con el fin de dar cuenta del surgimiento de un capitalismo gerencial en la Argentina. Presentamos el debate historiográfico sobre empresas y empresarios en América Latina y en nuestro país para favorecer una comprensión más precisa en torno a la formación de cuadros en las empresas transnacionales establecidas en nuestra región. El surgimiento tardío de esta figura en la Argentina nos obliga a desplegar una mirada comparativa con los países económicamente desarrollados, donde su emergencia data de un período anterior. Si el denominador común que encontramos es una creciente profesionalización del management y una tendencia hacia la autonomización de un cuerpo de gerentes que se diferencia de los altos directivos de las grandes empresas -muchas de ellas transnacionales- ¿Es posible hablar de una comunidad de gerentes argentinos? ¿Hasta qué punto los managers conforman un actor colectivo que vela por sus intereses de forma conjunta? Estos son algunos de los interrogantes que intentaremos esclarecer a lo largo de este trabajo.AbstractIn this article we analyze the emergence of a professional category that came with some delay to our region, in relation to Europe and the USA.While we start with an approach close to Sociology, we take the chandlerian historical perspective as the basis of analysis, to account for the emergence of managerial capitalism in Argentina. First, we present the historiographical debate on business and entrepreneurs in Latin America and in our country. This allows us to provide a more accurate understanding about the training of cadres in transnational corporations in our region. The late emergence of this figure in Argentina requires us to deploy a comparative view –which is complemented by the evidential method- with the economically developed countries, where its emergence dates from an earlier period. We find that the common denominator is a growing professionalization of management and a trend towards the empowerment of a corps of managers who are opposed to senior executives of large companies (many of them transnational). Given that fact, is it possible to speak of a community of managers in Argentina? To what extent managers constitute a collective actor who looks after its interests as a whole? Here are some questions on which we will try to shed light throughout this work.

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    In this article we analyze the emergence of a professional category that came with some delay to our region, in relation to Europe and the USA.

    While we start with an approach close to Sociology, we take the chandlerian historical perspective as the basis of analysis, to account for the emergence of managerial capitalism in Argentina. First, we present the historiographical debate on business and entrepreneurs in Latin America and in our country. This allows us to provide a more accurate understanding about the training of cadres in transnational corporations in our region. The late emergence of this figure in Argentina requires us to deploy a comparative view –which is complemented by the evidential method- with the economically developed countries, where its emergence dates from an earlier period. We find that the common denominator is a growing professionalization of management and a trend towards the empowerment of a corps of managers who are opposed to senior executives of large companies (many of them transnational). Given that fact, is it possible to speak of a community of managers in Argentina? To what extent managers constitute a collective actor who looks after its interests as a whole? Here are some questions on which we will try to shed light throughout this work.