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 65
The technological com- ponent is seen as playing a key mediating role in the process of defining the boundary conditions under which a steady state can be achieved and thus the system should be seen as an ' open socio - technical system ...
The technological com- ponent is seen as playing a key mediating role in the process of defining the boundary conditions under which a steady state can be achieved and thus the system should be seen as an ' open socio - technical system ...
Page 67
In an important unpublished discussion of socio - technical systems Emery ( 1959 , 8–9 ) pointed out that ' the first function of the concept of a socio - technical system is to serve as a frame of reference ' , and ' in its second ...
In an important unpublished discussion of socio - technical systems Emery ( 1959 , 8–9 ) pointed out that ' the first function of the concept of a socio - technical system is to serve as a frame of reference ' , and ' in its second ...
Page 99
Furthermore , the majority of those categories could be arranged in a scale of increas- ing technical complexity defined as ' the extent to which the pro- duction process is controllable and its results predictable ' ( Woodward 1958 ...
Furthermore , the majority of those categories could be arranged in a scale of increas- ing technical complexity defined as ' the extent to which the pro- duction process is controllable and its results predictable ' ( Woodward 1958 ...
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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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