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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comparison with the USA , led to the setting up of a Committee on Industrial Productivity in 1947 ; recognition that industry's prob- lems were social as well as technical meant that one of the Committee's four panels was concerned with ...
comparison with the USA , led to the setting up of a Committee on Industrial Productivity in 1947 ; recognition that industry's prob- lems were social as well as technical meant that one of the Committee's four panels was concerned with ...
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... is or should be primarily concerned with management's problems ( 1975 , 16 ) . ) Whatever the reason , there is here a considerable overlap with , if not a challenge to , a central area of interest within industrial sociology .
... is or should be primarily concerned with management's problems ( 1975 , 16 ) . ) Whatever the reason , there is here a considerable overlap with , if not a challenge to , a central area of interest within industrial sociology .
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The study of industrial organisations of all sorts has been of long standing interest to sociologists and has been a central , perhaps the central concern within that part of the subject conventionally known as the sociology of industry ...
The study of industrial organisations of all sorts has been of long standing interest to sociologists and has been a central , perhaps the central concern within that part of the subject conventionally known as the sociology of industry ...
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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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