Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyUnderstanding 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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collected by the Aston researchers had the same quality ? At the other extreme , rather than there being rules , procedures and job specifications which were ignored , many case studies of organi- sations have shown how the official ...
collected by the Aston researchers had the same quality ? At the other extreme , rather than there being rules , procedures and job specifications which were ignored , many case studies of organi- sations have shown how the official ...
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Technology and organisation Perhaps even more interest has been aroused by the Aston programme's findings regarding the relations between technology and organisational structure because these appeared to contradict Woodward's work and ...
Technology and organisation Perhaps even more interest has been aroused by the Aston programme's findings regarding the relations between technology and organisational structure because these appeared to contradict Woodward's work and ...
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The Aston programme was built on a deliberate separation of the study of organisational structure from the study of organ- isational processes . The separation was intended to be temporary , to be transcended in later stages of research ...
The Aston programme was built on a deliberate separation of the study of organisational structure from the study of organ- isational processes . The separation was intended to be temporary , to be transcended in later stages of research ...
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Contents
Systems thinking | 35 |
Context contingency and choice | 97 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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| Title | Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology |
| Author | Richard K. Brown |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0415017815, 9780415017817 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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