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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... arguments and main contributors to the approach, and an extensive critical literature is used to identify the main ... arguing that 'organisation' is best seen as created and sustained by the ongoing negotiation of the terms of the ...
... arguments and main contributors to the approach, and an extensive critical literature is used to identify the main ... arguing that 'organisation' is best seen as created and sustained by the ongoing negotiation of the terms of the ...
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... arguments about class and class consciousness were clearly of relevance to the industrial situation and had limited and partial acceptance; some of Weber's writings were available in English and his formulations, perhaps especially the ...
... arguments about class and class consciousness were clearly of relevance to the industrial situation and had limited and partial acceptance; some of Weber's writings were available in English and his formulations, perhaps especially the ...
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... arguments, and he has stated elsewhere that he regards the prominence given to Braverman as unjustified (Eldridge 1983). Similarly, when considering 'directions for the future' for research on the sociology of economic life Gallie ...
... arguments, and he has stated elsewhere that he regards the prominence given to Braverman as unjustified (Eldridge 1983). Similarly, when considering 'directions for the future' for research on the sociology of economic life Gallie ...
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... arguments differ considerably, but I shall argue in Chapter 6 that such an analytical point of reference can provide industrial sociology with a coherence that most approaches to it in the past have lacked. Such a starting point has the ...
... arguments differ considerably, but I shall argue in Chapter 6 that such an analytical point of reference can provide industrial sociology with a coherence that most approaches to it in the past have lacked. Such a starting point has the ...
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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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