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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... frameworks with which to investigate, analyse and explain the structure of and processes within industrial organisations. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive text book on industrial sociology. In contrast to the situation.
... frameworks with which to investigate, analyse and explain the structure of and processes within industrial organisations. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive text book on industrial sociology. In contrast to the situation.
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... framework of a sociology of work. For present purposes, however, it is sufficient to take the conventional view of the scope of industrial sociology as the starting point for the discussion. The institutional context Industrial ...
... framework of a sociology of work. For present purposes, however, it is sufficient to take the conventional view of the scope of industrial sociology as the starting point for the discussion. The institutional context Industrial ...
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... framework derived from Weber's discussion of class and status to discuss a question — the class consciousness of clerical workers and the patterns of their trade union membership - which originated in Marxist debates; and this study ...
... framework derived from Weber's discussion of class and status to discuss a question — the class consciousness of clerical workers and the patterns of their trade union membership - which originated in Marxist debates; and this study ...
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... framework. Similarly, whilst there was research on the sociology of work which utilised structuralist Marxist ideas (e.g. Willis 1977), the majority of industrial sociologists sympathetic to Marxian approaches were more conventional in ...
... framework. Similarly, whilst there was research on the sociology of work which utilised structuralist Marxist ideas (e.g. Willis 1977), the majority of industrial sociologists sympathetic to Marxian approaches were more conventional in ...
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... framework (Callie 1985, 512—13). The 19905 will probably be dominated by new debates. The various changes in the organisation and management of work and of workers, which have given rise to terms like 'flexible specialisation' and 'the ...
... framework (Callie 1985, 512—13). The 19905 will probably be dominated by new debates. The various changes in the organisation and management of work and of workers, which have given rise to terms like 'flexible specialisation' and 'the ...
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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