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 74
Emery and Trist ( 1965 ) , however , proposed a typology of environments around the notion of their ' causal texture ' , the interconnections which develop in the environment independently of an enterprise and of any exchanges between ...
Emery and Trist ( 1965 ) , however , proposed a typology of environments around the notion of their ' causal texture ' , the interconnections which develop in the environment independently of an enterprise and of any exchanges between ...
Page 86
The environment as a source of change is , of course , explicitly recognised in open systems approaches . Advocates of such an approach place considerable emphasis on the role of leadership in ' managing ' the boundary conditions of ...
The environment as a source of change is , of course , explicitly recognised in open systems approaches . Advocates of such an approach place considerable emphasis on the role of leadership in ' managing ' the boundary conditions of ...
Page 121
Such con- siderations point to the critical importance of the ' strategic choices ' taken by the ' dominant coalition ' within an organisation with regard to the goals it will pursue , the environment ( s ) within which it will pursue ...
Such con- siderations point to the critical importance of the ' strategic choices ' taken by the ' dominant coalition ' within an organisation with regard to the goals it will pursue , the environment ( s ) within which it will pursue ...
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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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