期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2002
卷号：11
期号：1 (57)
页码：47-65
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The first thing analyzed in the article is the new theoretical framework of modernization, which originates from the theory of innovative society and knowledge-based economies. Modern or innovative societies are founded on knowledge-based economies whose main reproductive resources are knowledge (research and development) and intellectual capital (education). The most modern firms are science/knowledge-based firms. The key process in so defined modernization is the mastering of processes that manage technological change. Therefore, the capability to manage technological change imposes itself as a new and unavoidable theoretical framework for studying managerial elites in Croatia on whose abilities, finally, economic growth and social welfare depend. The second part of the study deals with the analysis of influence possibilities on how managerial elites are formed and how they act, using the model of constructive technology assessment. Theories of social shaping of technology as one of the paradigms within sociology of technology stress the contingent characteristic of technological change depending on relevant actors. The possibilities and problems in the implementation of constructive technology assessment model on specific and very important actor group-managerial elites are discussed.
