Digitalisation and restructuring: which social dialogue? Literature review and experts interviews. Portugal. WP1 Report

• Main Author: Rego, Raquel
• Publication Date: 2018
• Format: Report
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/37324
• topic: Digitalisation; Social dialogue

The DIRESOC project is implemented by members of Irene network, composed of independent experts’ organizations and individuals: universities, research centers, NGOs, trade unions, consultants etc. Their work is focused on the social and economic dimensions of corporate restructuring in Europe. WP1 - Literary review and experts’ interviews. It’s tasks are: to collect the existing data on the digitalisation in the 4 sectors between the EU countries and to explain the terms in which national debate on digitalisation and its impacts for labor markets and companies is formulated by different stakeholders. The first step of this WP is the literature review. The data source is mainly desk research: different policy of stakeholders’s documents ( reports, position papers and so on), statistics, academic and managerial literature etc. Sectoral source should be used in order to give an overview of the specific situation in each of the 4 sectors to consider in research:Tourism, Financial services ( bank/insurance), Postal services (extended to delivery services) and Manufacturing industries. Each national case for WP1 include at least 12 interviews. The interviews are recorded and in some cases transcribed. Each partner country produces a national report analysing the data collected from the desk research and the interviews.