Automation of employment in the presence of industry 4.0: The case of Mexico

Ramos, Minerva E.; Garza-Rodríguez, Jorge; Gibaja-Romero, Damián-Emilio

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101837

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“…This survey designs employ a methodology where a single respondent provides responses for all items, including both the independent and dependent variables. This was critically chosen since we are studying the (Bonekamp and Sure, 2015;Krishnan, 2021;Moeuf et al, 2020;Oliva et al, 2022;Pozzi et al, 2023;Ramos et al, 2022;Sigov et al, 2022;Sony et al, 2021) Source(s): Authors work Table 3. CSF on I 4.0 from literature benefits, challenges and CSFs.…”

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“…, 2022) is critical to implementing I 4.0 technologies. People are important for the success of Industry, and the availability of skilled manpower is a pertinent factor for the success of I 4.0 (Bonekamp and Sure, 2015; Ramos et al. , 2022).…”

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“…The organization's availability of IT-enabled technologies (Sigov et al, 2022) is critical to implementing I 4.0 technologies. People are important for the success of Industry, and the availability of skilled manpower is a pertinent factor for the success of I 4.0 (Bonekamp and Sure, 2015;Ramos et al, 2022). The CSFs and sources are explicated in Table 3.…”

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Industry 4.0 benefits, challenges and critical success factors: a comparative analysis through the lens of resource dependence theory across continents and economies

Antony,

Sony,

Garza-Reyes

et al. 2023

JMTM

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PurposeEntering a new era of digital transformation, Industry 4.0 (I 4.0) promises to revolutionize the way business has been done, providing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. This study aims to investigate empirically and comparatively analyse the benefits, challenges and critical success factors (CSFs) of Industry 4.0 across four continents and developing and developed economies.Design/methodology/approachThis study used an online survey to explore the benefits, challenges and CSFs of developed and developing economies. In order to ensure the validity of the survey, a pilot test was conducted with 10 respondents. A total of 149 participants with senior managerial, vice-presidential and directorial positions from developed and developing economies spanning four continents were invited to take part in the survey.FindingsThe study ranks benefits, challenges and CSFs across economies and continents. Further, the benefit of Industry 4.0 helping to achieve organizational efficiency and agility differed across the developing and developed economies. Furthermore, the benefit improves customer satisfaction significantly differed across continents; in terms of challenges, Employee resistance to change had a higher proportion in developing economies. The future viability of I 4.0 also differed across the continents. Regarding CSFs, there was no difference across the developing and developed economies. Finally, change management and project management vary across the continents.Research limitations/implicationsThis study contributes to a balanced understanding of I 4.0 by providing empirical evidence for comparative analysis. Moreover, it extends the concept of resource dependence theory to explain how organizations in developing economies and developed economies deploy resources to manage external condition uncertainties to implement I 4.0. Furthermore, this study provides a structural framework to understand the specific benefits, challenges and CSFs of implementing I 4.0, which can be utilized by policymakers to promote I 4.0 in their economies or continents.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, no studies have empirically demonstrated the comparative analysis of benefits, challenges and CSFs across economies and continents and distinguish an original contribution of this work.

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Industry 4.0 benefits, challenges and critical success factors: a comparative analysis through the lens of resource dependence theory across continents and economies

Antony,

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Garza-Reyes

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“…With regard to empirical investigations, Focacci [20] compared the effects of increasing robot installations in China and Korea and found that robots did not always increase unemployment growth. In a study from Mexico, labor demand was increasing despite growing automation in jobs with a low and very low risk of automation [21]. In another study, technological progress boosted the labor market, while the substitution effect of employment was greater than the creation effect [22].…”

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“…Some researchers emphasize that workers can resist changes [13], adapt to new challenges [6], and actively shape the way in which new hardware or processes are integrated into their business routines [24][25][26]. Demographic factors also seem to play a role, as the direction of labor demand was found to be inverse to the characteristics of gender, age, and education in one Mexican study [21]. The impact of Industry 4.0 on industrial employment also strongly depends on a number of contextual factors such as a countries' social protection mechanisms, education policies, the structure of the workforce [6,[27][28][29][30][31], and factors on the company-level such as workplace organization or management strategies [32].…”

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Implications of Industry 4.0 on industrial employment: A comparative survey from Brazilian, Chinese, and German practitioners

Beier

Matthess

Shuttleworth

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Technology in Society

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Effects of Automation on Mexican Automotive Employment: 2013–2022

Márquez Stone,

Sandoval Cabrera

2024

Ind. J. Labour Econ.

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This article analyses the empirical relationship between the introduction of automation technology—industrial robots—and the employment and wages of workers in the Mexican automotive industry from 2013 to 2022. Drawing on contemporary debates surrounding automation and technological unemployment, we describe the Mexican labour market’s conditions in the context of trade openness, the technological capabilities of the Mexican automotive industry, and the implementation of industrial robots. We examine this relationship using a random effects panel data model across 14 Mexican states, constructed with values from the Monthly Survey of the Manufacturing Industry (EMIM), the Mexican Ministry of Economy (SE), and the International Federation of Robotics. Our results suggest that adopting industrial robots correlates positively with the employment and salaries of automobile sector workers in the study period. We discuss the implications of changes in jobs and wages in the Mexican automotive industry, highlighting the consequences of technological change.

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Automation of employment in the presence of industry 4.0: The case of Mexico

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Industry 4.0 benefits, challenges and critical success factors: a comparative analysis through the lens of resource dependence theory across continents and economies

Industry 4.0 benefits, challenges and critical success factors: a comparative analysis through the lens of resource dependence theory across continents and economies

Implications of Industry 4.0 on industrial employment: A comparative survey from Brazilian, Chinese, and German practitioners

Effects of Automation on Mexican Automotive Employment: 2013–2022

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