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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... context or environment on its structure and functioning; action approaches analyse organisations in terms of the ... contexts, thereby also providing an overview of the development of industrial sociology in the post-war years. The ...
... context or environment on its structure and functioning; action approaches analyse organisations in terms of the ... contexts, thereby also providing an overview of the development of industrial sociology in the post-war years. The ...
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... Context, contingency and choice Orientation and action labour power and the labour process QMfiMN Conclusion Bibliography Name index Subject index vii 39 89 126 165 228 242 261 266 To Jane Acknowledgements The Economic and Social ...
... Context, contingency and choice Orientation and action labour power and the labour process QMfiMN Conclusion Bibliography Name index Subject index vii 39 89 126 165 228 242 261 266 To Jane Acknowledgements The Economic and Social ...
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... context within which research was conducted and to the intellectual background against which it grew. There were, of course, major changes in all these areas during the forty-five year period under review, and this provides an important ...
... context within which research was conducted and to the intellectual background against which it grew. There were, of course, major changes in all these areas during the forty-five year period under review, and this provides an important ...
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... context Industrial sociology as such did not exist in Britain before the end of the Second World War. Indeed, with the exception of a very thin, though often distinguished, succession of scholars, sociology itself hardly existed as a ...
... context Industrial sociology as such did not exist in Britain before the end of the Second World War. Indeed, with the exception of a very thin, though often distinguished, succession of scholars, sociology itself hardly existed as a ...
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... interviews; but without the cooperation of managements and trade unions research would be greatly restricted. The intellectual context Even a brief and incomplete account of. Introduction - sociologists and industry 9.
... interviews; but without the cooperation of managements and trade unions research would be greatly restricted. The intellectual context Even a brief and incomplete account of. Introduction - sociologists and industry 9.
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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Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in ... Richard K. Brown Limited preview - 1992 |
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