Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 1992 - 280 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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... chapter I shall outline the ways in which industrial sociology has developed in Britain since 1945 , referring both to the institutional setting and social and economic context within which research was conducted and to the intellectual ...
... chapter I shall outline the ways in which industrial sociology has developed in Britain since 1945 , referring both to the institutional setting and social and economic context within which research was conducted and to the intellectual ...
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... Chapter 4 ) , but more common was the attempt to incorporate a recognition of the potential importance of the actor's ' definition of the situation ' within studies which otherwise had a more conventional theoretical framework ...
... Chapter 4 ) , but more common was the attempt to incorporate a recognition of the potential importance of the actor's ' definition of the situation ' within studies which otherwise had a more conventional theoretical framework ...
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... chapter by considering those , mostly large and powerful , industrial organisations which ' get their names in the paper ' . The study of industrial organisations of all sorts has been of long standing interest to sociologists and has ...
... chapter by considering those , mostly large and powerful , industrial organisations which ' get their names in the paper ' . The study of industrial organisations of all sorts has been of long standing interest to sociologists and has ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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