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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... debates as only one strand among many others and saw no need to advocate further research specifically within this framework ( Gallie 1985 , 512-13 ) . The 1990s will probably be dominated by new debates . The various changes in the ...
... debates as only one strand among many others and saw no need to advocate further research specifically within this framework ( Gallie 1985 , 512-13 ) . The 1990s will probably be dominated by new debates . The various changes in the ...
Page 125
... debates about the control of the labour process ( Chapter 5 ) . As those debates reveal , however , although the concept of manage- ment strategy does play an important part in attempts to explain organisational structures and processes ...
... debates about the control of the labour process ( Chapter 5 ) . As those debates reveal , however , although the concept of manage- ment strategy does play an important part in attempts to explain organisational structures and processes ...
Page 167
... debate with little agreement as to which parts of his thesis could be accepted unamended and which should be modified , or ... debates about theoretical perspectives within industrial relations , the growing interest in labour market ...
... debate with little agreement as to which parts of his thesis could be accepted unamended and which should be modified , or ... debates about theoretical perspectives within industrial relations , the growing interest in labour market ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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