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 148
Similarly Ingham ( 1970 , 57 ) asserted it is essential to the approach of this study that the independ- ence of orientations to work is demonstrated : otherwise it could be assumed that all variations in orientations are the result of ...
Similarly Ingham ( 1970 , 57 ) asserted it is essential to the approach of this study that the independ- ence of orientations to work is demonstrated : otherwise it could be assumed that all variations in orientations are the result of ...
Page 152
On the other hand homogeneity may result from socialisation within the current workplace itself . Though there were good reasons for dismissing this possibility in the case of the Luton workers , as has been argued already one cannot ...
On the other hand homogeneity may result from socialisation within the current workplace itself . Though there were good reasons for dismissing this possibility in the case of the Luton workers , as has been argued already one cannot ...
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Burawoy's own examination of the cotton textile industry in England , the USA and Russia in the nineteenth century suggested that it was the exception rather than the norm for all four of these conditions to be present , with the result ...
Burawoy's own examination of the cotton textile industry in England , the USA and Russia in the nineteenth century suggested that it was the exception rather than the norm for all four of these conditions to be present , with the result ...
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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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