De la naturaleza y especificidad del sistema ferroviario argentino: el desafío de la confiabilidad

In spite of being conceived as a simple and tightly coupled system, the railway transport is involved in accidents and catastrophes.It is a theoretical and technically reliable system that doesn’t stop contributing with empirical evidence about its vulnerabilities. The discrepancy between theoretica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Cantero, Javier H., González, Natalia L.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/49980
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/49980
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Económicas
transporte ferroviario
JEL: R41
Argentina
confiabilidad organizacional
teoría de accidentes normales
sistema de transporte ferroviario argentino
organizational reliability
normal accidents theory
Argentinean railway transport system
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Sumario:In spite of being conceived as a simple and tightly coupled system, the railway transport is involved in accidents and catastrophes.It is a theoretical and technically reliable system that doesn’t stop contributing with empirical evidence about its vulnerabilities. The discrepancy between theoretical and empirical railway transport performance, brings the discussion about the nature of the system.This article points to shape the ontology of the railway system using the scheme of Normal Accidents Theory (NAT), adding organizational dimensions not considered by CH Perrow.Once ontological and epistemological issues are overcome, determining factors for the development of the Argentinean railway system are analyzed, additionally the public-private railway system dilemma is approached and finally recommendations for the management are proposed.Accordingly, this analysis allows to single out the difference between ontological and contingent vulnerabilities and in addition, the potential of the Argentinean railway system to develop reliability.