Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises, 2010- 2013: A Synthesis of Recent Empirical Findings

Andrés Ruggeri () and Marcelo Vieta ()
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Andrés Ruggeri: Programa Facultad Abierta, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires
Marcelo Vieta: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto

Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 2015, vol. 4, issue 1, 75-103

Abstract: Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises, ERTs) are formerly investor- or privately-owned businesses in crisis ultimately taken over and re-opened by their employees, most commonly as worker cooperatives. Since 2002, the Programa Facultad Abierta (Open Faculty Program) of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires has carried out a series of national studies of Argentina’s ERTs. The aim of this article is to present the conclusions of the fourth survey of Argentina’s ERTs carried out by the Facultad Abierta. This survey focused on ERTs that emerged between March 2010 and December 2013, providing the most complete and up-to-date database of the characteristics of Argentina’s ERTs, and showing evidence of a wave of new worker-recuperated enterprises emerging in the postcrisis years, especially since 2010. The key findings presented in this article include: the political economic reasons for the emergence of ERTs; the characteristics of the growing ERT movement today as compared to earlier ERTs; the nature of the conflicts and issues leading to the creation of Argentina’s new ERTs; a critical analysis of new legal frameworks for ERT firms, comparing and contrasting them to older legal outlets for their formation; and the involvement of unions with Argentina’s ERTs.

Keywords: worker-recuperated enterprises; worker-recovered companies; worker buyouts; business conversions to cooperatives; legal processes; unions; labour movements; argentina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J52 J53 J54 K2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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