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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Similarly the traditional account of Marx's analysis of capitalist society , which had been based on a rather limited reading of his extensive writings , was largely superseded by a variety of Marxisms structuralist , humanist , and so ...
Similarly the traditional account of Marx's analysis of capitalist society , which had been based on a rather limited reading of his extensive writings , was largely superseded by a variety of Marxisms structuralist , humanist , and so ...
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SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS The main theoretical framework for systems approaches to the sociological analysis of industrial organisations was to be found in ' functionalism ' . Functionalism drew particularly on the contri- butions to ...
SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS The main theoretical framework for systems approaches to the sociological analysis of industrial organisations was to be found in ' functionalism ' . Functionalism drew particularly on the contri- butions to ...
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Fox's alternative to pluralism , a radical perspective , involved an analysis of society , and of industrial ... Other influential social theorists put forward similar analyses at much the same time ( e.g. Goldthorpe 1977 ) .
Fox's alternative to pluralism , a radical perspective , involved an analysis of society , and of industrial ... Other influential social theorists put forward similar analyses at much the same time ( e.g. Goldthorpe 1977 ) .
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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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