Full Description
The diverse topics in this volume bring together developments in the field of organization studies. Although the approaches are by no means undifferentiated the articles share a commitment to a revitalized organizational analysis, an historically based analysis and one which attempts to understand the structure and impact of organizations in terms of the location of these organizations within structure of class and power.
Contents
1. Three Mile Island: A Normal Accident 2. Business Strategy and Community Culture: Politcy as a Structured Accommodation of Conflict 3. On the Structure of the Democratic Firm 4. Whatever happened to Industrial Sociology 5. Revolt of the Incapacitated: Organizational Causes and Consequences of the Polish Summer 1980 6. Class and Knowledge Capital? 7. The Politics of Technology: Routinization and Management and Union Strategies 8. Towards a Political Economy of State Social Service Organization: A Critique of Leading Trends in Interorganizational Theory and Research 9. 'The Contested Terrain': A Critique of R C Edwards' Theory of Working-Class Factions and Politics 10. Infusion of Critical Social Theory Into Organizational Analysis: Implications for Studies of Work Adjustment 11. Professionals in the Corporate World: Values, Interests and Control 12. Men in the Middle or Men on the Margin? The Historical Development or Relations Between Employers and Supervisors in British Industry 13. The Modern Enterprise, Shop-Floor Organisation and the Structure of Control.
