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 119
Such theoretical rationales did exist and could have been used . Open systems approaches would have drawn attention to the im- portance of identifying the input - throughput - output processes , and should have led to a proper ...
Such theoretical rationales did exist and could have been used . Open systems approaches would have drawn attention to the im- portance of identifying the input - throughput - output processes , and should have led to a proper ...
Page 187
The conditions in which people could provide directly for their own needs tended no longer to exist ; they were forced to seek paid employment to provide for themselves and their families , and increasingly this meant that both partners ...
The conditions in which people could provide directly for their own needs tended no longer to exist ; they were forced to seek paid employment to provide for themselves and their families , and increasingly this meant that both partners ...
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Responsible autonomy ' and ' direct control ' strategies can and do co - exist in the same firm as well as in the same society . Indeed there may well be advantages in using both strategies , each in relation to different groups of ...
Responsible autonomy ' and ' direct control ' strategies can and do co - exist in the same firm as well as in the same society . Indeed there may well be advantages in using both strategies , each in relation to different groups of ...
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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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