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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FOUR THEMES We began the discussion in this chapter by considering those , mostly large and powerful , industrial organisations which ' get their names in the paper ' . The study of industrial organisations of all sorts has been of long ...
FOUR THEMES We began the discussion in this chapter by considering those , mostly large and powerful , industrial organisations which ' get their names in the paper ' . The study of industrial organisations of all sorts has been of long ...
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Though the word does not appear in the index of any of the main studies discussed in this section , there is some discussion of conflict in the texts themselves . It tends , however , to be concerned either with the the psychic stresses ...
Though the word does not appear in the index of any of the main studies discussed in this section , there is some discussion of conflict in the texts themselves . It tends , however , to be concerned either with the the psychic stresses ...
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changes have been the source of continuing debates , particularly in relation to discussions of class structure ... In his valuable introduction to the labour process debate Thompson attributes this neglect of Marx's discussion of the ...
changes have been the source of continuing debates , particularly in relation to discussions of class structure ... In his valuable introduction to the labour process debate Thompson attributes this neglect of Marx's discussion of the ...
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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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