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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... questions and materials which commonly feature in books and courses on industrial sociology. My focus, the study of ... question of the scope ofa sociology ofindustry has been contentious and there have been at least latent boundary ...
... questions and materials which commonly feature in books and courses on industrial sociology. My focus, the study of ... question of the scope ofa sociology ofindustry has been contentious and there have been at least latent boundary ...
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... questions of overlap with other 'subdisciplines'. Such a pragmatic definition is not particularly desirable or defensible. Indeed I shall argue both that greater coherence can be found for the study of many of the questions ...
... questions of overlap with other 'subdisciplines'. Such a pragmatic definition is not particularly desirable or defensible. Indeed I shall argue both that greater coherence can be found for the study of many of the questions ...
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... questions about individual behaviour were more than once led to the consideration of social factors and, in a broad sense, of sociological explanations (Rose 1988, Pt 2; also 1975, Pt 2). The Second World War stimulated renewed interest ...
... questions about individual behaviour were more than once led to the consideration of social factors and, in a broad sense, of sociological explanations (Rose 1988, Pt 2; also 1975, Pt 2). The Second World War stimulated renewed interest ...
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... question — the class consciousness of clerical workers and the patterns of their trade union membership - which originated in Marxist debates; and this study showed no obvious influences from Human Relations approaches or functionalist ...
... question — the class consciousness of clerical workers and the patterns of their trade union membership - which originated in Marxist debates; and this study showed no obvious influences from Human Relations approaches or functionalist ...
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... question would require much more detailed treatment than can be provided here. However, suggestions can be made as to the links which do exist (see also Brown 1984). Certainly, among those who have worked in the area for some time there ...
... question would require much more detailed treatment than can be provided here. However, suggestions can be made as to the links which do exist (see also Brown 1984). Certainly, among those who have worked in the area for some time there ...
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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