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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There were relationships between these types and certain con- textual variables , especially size , external dependence ... This reflected the findings of the researchers ' more general exploration of the relationship between ...
There were relationships between these types and certain con- textual variables , especially size , external dependence ... This reflected the findings of the researchers ' more general exploration of the relationship between ...
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Weber's enumerations of the charac- teristics of bureaucracy can , Littler suggested , be separated into two main categories : ' those that describe the official's relationship to the organization and those that are largely concerned ...
Weber's enumerations of the charac- teristics of bureaucracy can , Littler suggested , be separated into two main categories : ' those that describe the official's relationship to the organization and those that are largely concerned ...
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A focus on the employment relationship would obviate these difficulties and provide theoretically defensible grounds for con- sidering engineering , banking , the health ' industry ' and so on within a common framework .
A focus on the employment relationship would obviate these difficulties and provide theoretically defensible grounds for con- sidering engineering , banking , the health ' industry ' and so on within a common framework .
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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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