Entrepreneurship, Technology and Power in Mexico

This is a study on the processes of change that occur in the structure and organisation of certain Mexican petrochemical companies. Fundamentally, such changes should be understood as successive adaptations to changes in their environment. The main objective of the study is the analysis of power relations, as these determine the viability of the changes. For the handling of the empirical materials and the analysis of the logic of change I propose a formal model in which I interrelate some key propositions. These are: technological system, firm, entrepreneurs, power, and formal and informal relations. I use the theoretical and methodological tradition of Social Anthropology to try to explain the processes of social and cultural change linked to technological change that are currently shaking the world. That is to say, I consider the latter and the economic ones in their social and cultural dimension. My intention is to contribute to the demonstration of the viability of the discipline to explain not only the social processes of traditional societies, but also of complex societies.