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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Page 65
As ' open socio - technical systems ' enterprises must be seen as both influenced by and able to act back on their ... the enterprise's structure may make it independent of an increasing range of predictable fluctuations in its supplies ...
As ' open socio - technical systems ' enterprises must be seen as both influenced by and able to act back on their ... the enterprise's structure may make it independent of an increasing range of predictable fluctuations in its supplies ...
Page 66
Initially Rice ( 1958 , 32 ) defined the enterprise's primary task as ' the task which it is created to perform ' . ... survive ' : in the case of industrial and commercial enterprises , and in the most general terms , to make profits .
Initially Rice ( 1958 , 32 ) defined the enterprise's primary task as ' the task which it is created to perform ' . ... survive ' : in the case of industrial and commercial enterprises , and in the most general terms , to make profits .
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In contrast to the ' unitary ' view of the industrial enterprise held by many employers and managers he argued convincingly for a ' pluralist ' perspective . The former , unitary , view assumes that all members of an enterprise share ...
In contrast to the ' unitary ' view of the industrial enterprise held by many employers and managers he argued convincingly for a ' pluralist ' perspective . The former , unitary , view assumes that all members of an enterprise share ...
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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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