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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I am concerned primarily with research and writing in Britain in the period since the Second World War ; and I have organised my discussion around certain influential theoretical perspectives concerned with understanding industrial ...
I am concerned primarily with research and writing in Britain in the period since the Second World War ; and I have organised my discussion around certain influential theoretical perspectives concerned with understanding industrial ...
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challenged either in Britain or in the USA ( see Landsberger 1958 , esp . 28-47 ) . It was more difficult in Britain than in the USA to regard industrial conflict as inevitably pathological and trade unions as misguided ; Britain had ...
challenged either in Britain or in the USA ( see Landsberger 1958 , esp . 28-47 ) . It was more difficult in Britain than in the USA to regard industrial conflict as inevitably pathological and trade unions as misguided ; Britain had ...
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Distinguishing historical periods is always perilous , but it can be suggested that the post - war industrial history of Britain divides into three overlapping episodes . Initially there was a period of austerity , lasting from 1945 ...
Distinguishing historical periods is always perilous , but it can be suggested that the post - war industrial history of Britain divides into three overlapping episodes . Initially there was a period of austerity , lasting from 1945 ...
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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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