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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... developed a ' life of their own ' and acquired a large specialist literature at least some of which is not sociological in orientation . In two areas , both of which are central to industrial sociology as conventionally understood and ...
... developed a ' life of their own ' and acquired a large specialist literature at least some of which is not sociological in orientation . In two areas , both of which are central to industrial sociology as conventionally understood and ...
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... developed in some of the earliest research in the immediate post - war period in Britain . We shall consider three rather different attempts to develop the use of this concept within industrial sociology : 1 The work of W.H. Scott and ...
... developed in some of the earliest research in the immediate post - war period in Britain . We shall consider three rather different attempts to develop the use of this concept within industrial sociology : 1 The work of W.H. Scott and ...
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... developed along these lines . The Liverpool studies demonstrated the value , and the limita- tions , of detailed empirical investigations of industrial organ- isations ; their findings were carefully and precisely presented but carried ...
... developed along these lines . The Liverpool studies demonstrated the value , and the limita- tions , of detailed empirical investigations of industrial organ- isations ; their findings were carefully and precisely presented but carried ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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