In this article it intends to approach the appropriation/reconstruction processes of practices organizational starting from it analyses of the diffusion of technologies organizational associated to the workers' participation in the companies " in elapsing of the decade of 1980. The central axis of the work is to show as the participation " concept has your meaning altered in elapsing of the period to adapt to the changes in the contexts. Thwarting the most common understanding, I sustain that far away from being a problem of lack of precision of the participation concept, this plasticity is exactly the condition for your diffusion and introduction in a concrete way in the atmosphere Brazilian organizational.
Diffusion; participation; polyssemy; organizational change
