La historia de la Empresa Distrital de Servicios de Bogotá: Construcción social de un declive organizacional

Abstract

This work makes a brief analysis of the processes of building, consolidation and institutional crisis of Bogotá's Utilities Company [EDIS for its initials in Spanish]. This allows to pinpoint the fact that such processes were the outcome of the interaction between different pressure groups which found in EDIS the appropriate scenario to pursue their own interests. The document studies various available documented sources. Lastly, it concludes that EDIS' experience can be understood as a specific post-fordist process which reflects the appearance of the neo liberal discourse and the possible fractioning of the traditional power hierarchy at a local order.