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 immediate post - war period saw the demand for research which would improve the productivity of British industry and , for example , projects were supported on the resistance to and acceptance of technical changes and innovations ...
The immediate post - war period saw the demand for research which would improve the productivity of British industry and , for example , projects were supported on the resistance to and acceptance of technical changes and innovations ...
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Some of the responses of sociologists and other social scientists to these changes have been immediate and direct , for example increasing interest in and research on the labour market , and on redundancy and unemployment .
Some of the responses of sociologists and other social scientists to these changes have been immediate and direct , for example increasing interest in and research on the labour market , and on redundancy and unemployment .
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Prototypicality Goldthorpe and his colleagues attempted to locate their study within a more general understanding of the changes taking place in Britain ( and possibly in other industrialised societies ) at the time so that they could ...
Prototypicality Goldthorpe and his colleagues attempted to locate their study within a more general understanding of the changes taking place in Britain ( and possibly in other industrialised societies ) at the time so that they could ...
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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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