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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... attempts to understand and account for the social characteristics of industrial organisations, the social relations and ... attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy (see Rose 1988, esp. Pt 2, for such an assessment) . My ...
... attempts to understand and account for the social characteristics of industrial organisations, the social relations and ... attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy (see Rose 1988, esp. Pt 2, for such an assessment) . My ...
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... attempt to cover the whole heterogeneous range of empirical questions and materials which commonly feature in books and courses on industrial sociology. My focus, the study of industrial organisations, has always been a central concern ...
... attempt to cover the whole heterogeneous range of empirical questions and materials which commonly feature in books and courses on industrial sociology. My focus, the study of industrial organisations, has always been a central concern ...
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... attempts to meet these problems. The expansion of business schools and management education in practice provided some additional relatively secure and well-financed 'homes' for research in industrial sociology. None of these ...
... attempts to meet these problems. The expansion of business schools and management education in practice provided some additional relatively secure and well-financed 'homes' for research in industrial sociology. None of these ...
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... attempt to chart these changes must be the 'Human Relations Movement', though this tradition of research and theorising about social relations in industry was not altogether clear-cut in content and message (see Landsberger 1958; Rose ...
... attempt to chart these changes must be the 'Human Relations Movement', though this tradition of research and theorising about social relations in industry was not altogether clear-cut in content and message (see Landsberger 1958; Rose ...
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... attempt to elaborate a view of the industrial enterprise as a social system. In their study of a steel plant, Technical Change and Industrial Relations, and elsewhere, however, they explicitly rejected the view that social relations in ...
... attempt to elaborate a view of the industrial enterprise as a social system. In their study of a steel plant, Technical Change and Industrial Relations, and elsewhere, however, they explicitly rejected the view that social relations in ...
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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