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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The focus of this book is on these attempts to understand and account for the social characteristics of industrial organisations ... I have made no attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy ( see Rose 1988 , esp .
The focus of this book is on these attempts to understand and account for the social characteristics of industrial organisations ... I have made no attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy ( see Rose 1988 , esp .
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The outline here of the ideas formulated in Management and the Worker serves as an example of an at - the - time relatively sophisticated attempt to con- ceptualise the industrial organisation as a social system .
The outline here of the ideas formulated in Management and the Worker serves as an example of an at - the - time relatively sophisticated attempt to con- ceptualise the industrial organisation as a social system .
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Silverman's The Theory of Organisations can be seen against this background as an attempt to spell out the implications of the criticisms for the analysis of organisations : the need for greater sophistication in research methods ...
Silverman's The Theory of Organisations can be seen against this background as an attempt to spell out the implications of the criticisms for the analysis of organisations : the need for greater sophistication in research methods ...
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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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