Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Javier H. Cantero                    
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto de Industria. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Argentina
Author-Name: Natalia L. Gonzalez                    
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto de Industria. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Argentina
Title: De la naturaleza y especificidad del sistema ferroviario argentino: el desafío de la confiabilidad                  
Abstract: 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. 
Classification-JEL: R41
Keywords: Organizational Reliability , Normal Accidents Theory, Argentinean Railway Transport System. 
Journal: Ciencias Administrativas
Pages: 83-96
Issue: 6
Number: 8
Year: 2015
Month: July-December
DOI: -
File-URL: https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/CADM/article/view/2045
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:lap:recadm:44