The Company Revisited

Portuguese society cannot once again remain aloof from an important international debate involving sociologists businessmen managers trade unionists and public opinion itself on the company initiated more than two decades ago and practically without echo among us1. If in fact the theme of the enterprise has been relegated to a secondary plan in the Portuguese context academic and non-academic so visible in the practices and discourses on today''s Portugal it is time we might say given the social and economic transformations we are going through to put the theme of the enterprise back at the center of the social debate.