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 119
... exists for the ' contextual ' factors . This reflected , I think , the absence of any theory or theories , no matter how ... exist and could have been used . Open systems approaches would have drawn attention to the im- portance of ...
... exists for the ' contextual ' factors . This reflected , I think , the absence of any theory or theories , no matter how ... exist and could have been used . Open systems approaches would have drawn attention to the im- portance of ...
Page 187
... exist ; they were forced to seek paid employment to provide for themselves and their families , and increasingly this meant that both partners in a marriage would be employed . This ' commodi- fication of social life ' helped both to ...
... exist ; they were forced to seek paid employment to provide for themselves and their families , and increasingly this meant that both partners in a marriage would be employed . This ' commodi- fication of social life ' helped both to ...
Page 196
... 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 workers , in order to overcome the rather different inflexibilities to which ...
... 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 workers , in order to overcome the rather different inflexibilities to which ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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