After the period of hyperrinflation (1989,1990) the Argentine economy stabilize and most of public companies were privatized. The return on investiments was concentrated on promoting the technological change which adopts two basic forms - systemic modernization and revamping of existing teams. The first variant - ilustrated by the national telephone network-makes obsolete the knowledge accumulated during the period when the company was public. To confront the structural deficiency of knowledge and experience which result, the private operators invest massively in transfering educational technologies and in the development of costly and sofisticated internal systems of training, while they negociate numerous and various agreements of cooperation with educational system instituions, public as well as private. In the second variant - illustrated by a steel and metallurgie company - th preexisting knowledge continues being necessary even though it may need a vis-a-vis updating facing the new demands which are stated referring to the productivity, quality effectiveness and productiveness and productive efficiency in markets which are open to competition. Taking into account the significant achievements which are being obtained by the second alternative of modernization - most of the privatized companies fall into this pattern - the article invits to a reopening of the old debat on technological blending

Volume 23

Numbers 5-8