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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If not , we will have factory theory , hospital theory , local store theory , cafe theory ... ' ( Pugh and Hickson 1976 , 5 , see also 180 ) . There are various theoretically relevant ways of sub - dividing the whole range of employing ...
If not , we will have factory theory , hospital theory , local store theory , cafe theory ... ' ( Pugh and Hickson 1976 , 5 , see also 180 ) . There are various theoretically relevant ways of sub - dividing the whole range of employing ...
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This parallels the debates about theories of social action which have occurred in sociological theory more generally ( see , for example , Dawe 1970 , and especially 1979 ) . As it developed historically in Britain in the 1960s the ...
This parallels the debates about theories of social action which have occurred in sociological theory more generally ( see , for example , Dawe 1970 , and especially 1979 ) . As it developed historically in Britain in the 1960s the ...
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Dawe , A. ( 1979 ) Theories of social action , in T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet ( eds ) A History of Sociological ... Day , R. and Day , J.V. ( 1977 ) A review of the current state of negotiated order theory : an appreciation and a ...
Dawe , A. ( 1979 ) Theories of social action , in T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet ( eds ) A History of Sociological ... Day , R. and Day , J.V. ( 1977 ) A review of the current state of negotiated order theory : an appreciation and a ...
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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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