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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... analysis it advocated came to influence the work even of those who were unsympathetic to this basic approach . Debates about the analysis of the capitalist labour process replaced discussions of the adequacy and limitations of the ...
... analysis it advocated came to influence the work even of those who were unsympathetic to this basic approach . Debates about the analysis of the capitalist labour process replaced discussions of the adequacy and limitations of the ...
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... analysis of industrial organisations was to be found in ' functionalism ' . Functionalism drew particularly on the contri- butions to sociology of Durkheim and Pareto , and was also strongly influenced by the writings of social ...
... analysis of industrial organisations was to be found in ' functionalism ' . Functionalism drew particularly on the contri- butions to sociology of Durkheim and Pareto , and was also strongly influenced by the writings of social ...
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... analyses at much the same time ( e.g. Goldthorpe 1977 ) . As Fox acknowledged his analysis drew upon and closely followed those derived from Marxist bases , but , as already noted , he explicitly separated his analysis either from ...
... analyses at much the same time ( e.g. Goldthorpe 1977 ) . As Fox acknowledged his analysis drew upon and closely followed those derived from Marxist bases , but , as already noted , he explicitly separated his analysis either from ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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