Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Productivity of Public Enterprises of National Level in Colombia

The paper is positioned in the emerging debate on the technological change brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, often referred to as Industry 4.0. Our analysis is at the local, sub-national level. The aim is to explore what drivers and barriers local productive systems might face when seeking to embark on transitions that reconcile smart, equitable, and sustainable priorities, under enhanced models called Industry 4.0+. The novelty of the paper is to develop such models by designing a conceptual framework that juxtaposes the drivers and the barriers of sustainability transitions with local productive systems. This novel framework suggests possible pathways that local productive systems can initiate to achieve more equitable and green outcomes for their economy and society by directing the development of digital-related solutions.

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Revolutionary dreams: Future essentialism and the sociotechnical imaginary of the fourth industrial revolution in Denmark

Social Studies of Science ◽

10.1177/0306312719867768 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 542-566

Author(s):

Kasper Schiølin

Keyword(s):

Public Reason ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

National Level ◽

Original Material ◽

Discursive Strategies ◽

Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽

The World ◽

World Economic ◽

To Come

In 2015, the World Economic Forum announced that the world was on the threshold of a ‘fourth industrial revolution’ driven by a fusion of cutting-edge technologies with unprecedented disruptive power. The next year, in 2016, the fourth industrial revolution appeared as the theme of the Forum’s annual meeting, and as the topic of a book by its founder and executive chairman, Klaus Schwab. Ever since, the Forum has made this impending revolution its top priority, maintaining that it will inevitably change everything we once know about the world and how to live in it, thus creating what I conceptualize as ‘future essentialism’. Within a short space of time, the vision of the fourth industrial revolution was institutionalized and publicly performed in various national settings around the world as a sociotechnical imaginary of a promising and desirable future soon to come. Through readings of original material published by the Forum, and through a case study of the reception of the fourth industrial revolution in Denmark, this article highlights and analyses three discursive strategies – ‘dialectics of pessimism and optimism’, ‘epochalism’ and ‘inevitability’ – in the transformation of a corporate, highly elitist vision of the future into policymaking and public reason on a national level.

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Creating Shared Value Strategies of Public Enterprises in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Focusing on the Case of Korea Water Resources Corporation(K-water)

Korea Business Review ◽

10.17287/kbr.2020.24.0.7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (0) ◽

pp. 7-35

Author(s):

Hyo-Yeong Jung ◽

Jeong-Eun Park

Keyword(s):

Water Resources ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Shared Value ◽

Public Enterprises ◽

Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽

Creating Shared Value

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Transformation of Innovation Processes and Socio-Cultural Specificity of South Korea in the framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

MIR (Modernization Innovation Research) ◽

10.18184/2079-4665.2019.10.1.54-65 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 54-65

Author(s):

T. V. Pospelova ◽

A. B. Yarygina

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

National Level ◽

Organizational Factors ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Innovation Development ◽

Cultural Behavior ◽

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Purpose: the main purpose of this article is to explore the specific characteristics of the innovation development of South Korea. To achieve this goal the following tasks must be solved in the article: research the main principles and steps in the development of South Korea; identify and analyze the successful factors of the South Korean «economic miracle» that will continue contributing to the development and growth of the country; describe the cultural and organizational factors limiting the speed of transformation of South Korea under the fourth industrial revolution.Methods: the main methods of the research are system, structural and qualitative analyses. For the study, statistical data and articles in Russian and foreign scientific and analytical publications were used. The article is contributed with the empirical findings from the case study conducted during direct involvement of the authors in one of the industrial companies of South Korea.Results: an in-depth analyses of the transformation periods during the innovation development of South Korea was carried out, which made it possible to formulate the conclusion about existing barriers originated in the organisational approaches used to achieve the former industrial success. The problems constraining the new paradigm shift are analyzed.Conclusions and Relevance: the materials stated in the article show that in modern conditions, transition of South Korea towards Industry 4.0 is constrained by several unique factors, that used to be the key success elements in the former stages of the innovation development of the country. The research conducted in this article represents the value to the activities of various organizations interested in the innovation development, especially for development of innovation policies from the aspect of the importance of oranisational and cultural behavior at a national level. Practical application of the suggested conclusions allows hierarchical and monocultural organisations to transition to the Industry 4.0 with the consideration of important economic and social dynamics.

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