Understanding Industrial Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 2013 M10 31 - 288 pages Understanding Industrial Organizations critically reviews the approaches developed by industrial sociologists to analyze industrial organizations. It outlines four general perspectives on organizations - systems thinking, contingency approach, the action approach and labour process for a more adequate sociology of organizations. The book provides a clear, relevant and important contribution to the sociology of organizations. |
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... approaches are identified: systems thinking considers organisations as systems of inter-related parts; contingency theo1y emphasises the influence of an organisation's context or environment on its structure and functioning; action ...
... approaches are identified: systems thinking considers organisations as systems of inter-related parts; contingency theo1y emphasises the influence of an organisation's context or environment on its structure and functioning; action ...
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... action approach advocated by Coldthorpe and his colleagues was explicitly contrasted with the assumptions of neo-I-Iuman Relations and the implicit functionalism of the 'technological implications' approach (Goldthorpe el al. 1968, 178 ...
... action approach advocated by Coldthorpe and his colleagues was explicitly contrasted with the assumptions of neo-I-Iuman Relations and the implicit functionalism of the 'technological implications' approach (Goldthorpe el al. 1968, 178 ...
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... approach to sociological research (see Lassman 1974). Similarly the traditional account of Marx's analysis of ... action approach as the central, though by no means the only, controversy within this area of sociology. As we shall see in ...
... approach to sociological research (see Lassman 1974). Similarly the traditional account of Marx's analysis of ... action approach as the central, though by no means the only, controversy within this area of sociology. As we shall see in ...
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... Approaches varied considerably and it cannot be claimed that a consensus has ... approach, though in its own way also eclectic: he traced the ways in which ... action perspective was used to build both an account of the organising of ...
... Approaches varied considerably and it cannot be claimed that a consensus has ... approach, though in its own way also eclectic: he traced the ways in which ... action perspective was used to build both an account of the organising of ...
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Contents
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2 Systems thinking | 39 |
3 Context contingency and choice | 89 |
4 Orientation and action | 126 |
5 Labour power and the labour process | 165 |
6 Conclusion | 228 |
Bibliography | 242 |
Name index | 261 |
Subject index | 266 |
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