Naslov
A Meshwork of Internal and External Relations: Shipyard „3. maj“ in Rijeka

Autori
Puljar D'Alessio, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Firms in Late Post-Socialism: State control, Management and the Shop-floor in Transformation

Mjesto i datum
Pula, Hrvatska, 09.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
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Ključne riječi
external and internal relations in a complex system, industrial system, shipyard

Sažetak
This paper focuses on the shipyard “3. maj” in Rijeka as a social, political and primarily business space, and it analyses its internal social dynamics, as well as its interrelations with external socio-political developments and developments in the shipbuilding industry. This approach questions the ideas of clear-cut borders between “in” and “out” of the organization “3. maj”. I refer to the shipyard “3. maj” as to an organization, since organizations are symbolic social institutions materialized in the practice that reproduces them. We usually think of organizations as formal, with bureaucratic structure and with the aim of production and management of people and resources. One of the goals in organizational anthropology is to explore and understand the interrelations among various dimensions of economic and social contexts. The multiple dimensions of organizations (e.g., regulatory, normative, cultural-cognitive, economic) interact in social life, and our task is to understand their articulation about specific temporal and spatial contexts. It is not easy to comprehend complex organizations: their image is variable because organizations are big, compound, and mutable. Each perspective on them will offer a new picture, partly overlapping with the previous ones, and partly in conflict with them. The image of the shipyard I am trying to grasp is multi-layered, fluid, mutable and evolving: an image that would reflect its complexity. The behavior of each complex system cannot be explained by the behaviors of its parts. Only the communication with its surroundings creates the behavior of the whole system: Through this communication with its environment the system gets new inputs, and each part interacts with those inputs differently, therefore simultaneously changing the interaction also between the parts themselves. As a result emerges the behavior of the whole system: this whole process is called emergency. I translated these concepts of relationships between parts and the wholes, and of emergency, into anthropological ideas of contexts, holism, and of Levi-Strauss' theory on real and imagined order. This approach enabled me to analyze 3. Maj in a meshwork of internal and external relations.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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