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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Page 65
... enterprises must be seen as both influenced by and able to act back on their environ- ments . Internal elaboration and differentiation of the enterprise's structure may make it independent of an increasing range of predictable ...
... enterprises must be seen as both influenced by and able to act back on their environ- ments . Internal elaboration and differentiation of the enterprise's structure may make it independent of an increasing range of predictable ...
Page 66
... enterprise's primary task as ' the task which it is created to perform ' . Because of the ' once and for all ' conno- tation of that definition ( which is also open to the same objections as the analysis of organisations in terms of ...
... enterprise's primary task as ' the task which it is created to perform ' . Because of the ' once and for all ' conno- tation of that definition ( which is also open to the same objections as the analysis of organisations in terms of ...
Page 168
... enterprise share common interests ; the enterprise is a team with ' one source of authority and one focus of loyalty ' . Opposition to this authority ( management ) is either due to mis- understanding , to be met by improved ...
... enterprise share common interests ; the enterprise is a team with ' one source of authority and one focus of loyalty ' . Opposition to this authority ( management ) is either due to mis- understanding , to be met by improved ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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