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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Other ex- amples of such specialised areas of research are the question of industrial democracy and worker ... It uses sociological concepts and analysis to explore and try to explain action and interaction within one area of social ...
Other ex- amples of such specialised areas of research are the question of industrial democracy and worker ... It uses sociological concepts and analysis to explore and try to explain action and interaction within one area of social ...
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Whatever the reason , there is here a considerable overlap with , if not a challenge to , a central area of interest within industrial sociology . In exploring the scope of industrial sociology we have identified a number of areas of ...
Whatever the reason , there is here a considerable overlap with , if not a challenge to , a central area of interest within industrial sociology . In exploring the scope of industrial sociology we have identified a number of areas of ...
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What all these areas of activity have in common is that they are providing goods and / or services and that people are employed to carry out the necessary work . Socio- logical analysis which focused on employment could have a certain ...
What all these areas of activity have in common is that they are providing goods and / or services and that people are employed to carry out the necessary work . Socio- logical analysis which focused on employment could have a certain ...
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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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