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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Page 139
It is to the develop- ment and criticism of this ' social action ' approach that we must now turn . DEVELOPMENTS AND CRITICISMS Even before the full accounts of the Affluent Worker project had been published a number of studies had been ...
It is to the develop- ment and criticism of this ' social action ' approach that we must now turn . DEVELOPMENTS AND CRITICISMS Even before the full accounts of the Affluent Worker project had been published a number of studies had been ...
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Thus , there appears to be some ambiguity in these writings and those of Goldthorpe and his colleagues as to whether a ' social action approach ' to the analysis of industrial organisations should be seen as a corrective to systems ...
Thus , there appears to be some ambiguity in these writings and those of Goldthorpe and his colleagues as to whether a ' social action approach ' to the analysis of industrial organisations should be seen as a corrective to systems ...
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This dualism of structure and action underlies many of the problems raised by the approaches to organisational analysis dis- cussed in previous chapters . A major criticism of systems thinking is its tendency to reify the system and its ...
This dualism of structure and action underlies many of the problems raised by the approaches to organisational analysis dis- cussed in previous chapters . A major criticism of systems thinking is its tendency to reify the system and its ...
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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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