Institutional complementarities and technological transformation: IVET responsiveness to Industry 4.0 – meeting emerging skill needs in the European steel industry

Luca Antonazzo, Dean Stroud and Martin Weinel

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, vol. 44, issue 1, 25-46

Abstract: Digital technology is gradually changing the organisation of production and work. In this article, the authors explore the implications of such developments for workers through the lens of skill, and the skill needs developing out of the shift towards Industry 4.0 technologies now being employed within the European steel industry. Specifically, the article examines the preparedness of initial vocational training systems to support adaptation to Industry 4.0 and the changes in work and employment that will follow. The article addresses such developments from the point of view of institutional theory, analysing how different institutional architectures influence responses to change.

Keywords: Adaptation; Industry 4.0; response; skills formation; steel industry; varieties of capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X211059227

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