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 83
A con- trast to this reification of organisations as self - regulating systems would be a view of them which stresses the ways in which organ- isational goals , and the rules , roles and order intended to achieve them , are continually ...
A con- trast to this reification of organisations as self - regulating systems would be a view of them which stresses the ways in which organ- isational goals , and the rules , roles and order intended to achieve them , are continually ...
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Though his own assumptions about organisational development appeared to assume that organ- isations always developed from scratch , he also argued that size , upon which the Aston group placed so much emphasis , is at least as much a ...
Though his own assumptions about organisational development appeared to assume that organ- isations always developed from scratch , he also argued that size , upon which the Aston group placed so much emphasis , is at least as much a ...
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Work organisation The third topic of enquiry which contributed to preparing the ground for the labour process debate was the study of work organ- isation . There were a number of reasons for a growing interest in work organisation from ...
Work organisation The third topic of enquiry which contributed to preparing the ground for the labour process debate was the study of work organ- isation . There were a number of reasons for a growing interest in work organisation from ...
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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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