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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fore , was that the objectives of an enterprise and the methods and processes necessary to achieve these objectives ( its technology or production system ) were the most important , though not the only , determinant of its ...
fore , was that the objectives of an enterprise and the methods and processes necessary to achieve these objectives ( its technology or production system ) were the most important , though not the only , determinant of its ...
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batch and mass production firms in the middle : specialisation between the functions of management , the amount of written as opposed to verbal communication , the span of control of the first - line supervisor and the extent to which ...
batch and mass production firms in the middle : specialisation between the functions of management , the amount of written as opposed to verbal communication , the span of control of the first - line supervisor and the extent to which ...
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In the light of later treatment of ' technology ' as a variable it should be noted that Woodward's attempt to typify production systems emphasised the objectives being pursued by the enterprise which ' controlled and limited ' the ...
In the light of later treatment of ' technology ' as a variable it should be noted that Woodward's attempt to typify production systems emphasised the objectives being pursued by the enterprise which ' controlled and limited ' the ...
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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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