Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 1992 - 280 pages Understanding 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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... theory . 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 ...
... theory . 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 ...
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... 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 action approach appeared initially as ...
... 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 action approach appeared initially as ...
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... Theories of social action , in T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet ( eds ) A History of Sociological Analysis , London , Heinemann , 362–417 . Day , R. and Day , J.V. ( 1977 ) A review of the current state of negotiated order theory : an ...
... Theories of social action , in T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet ( eds ) A History of Sociological Analysis , London , Heinemann , 362–417 . Day , R. and Day , J.V. ( 1977 ) A review of the current state of negotiated order theory : an ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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