Work, Organizations, and Society: Comparative Convergences
By (Author) Merlin B. Brinkerhoff
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
11th December 1984
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
302.35
Hardback
200
The focus here is on complex modern organizations as work environments. The major chapters were contributions by invited sociologists whose several themes include a theory of organizations that provides an alternative to the rational bureaucratic model, a theory of modernization based on energy consumption, and an empirical study of Japanese industries that challenges or supports theories about organizational complexity in terms of size or technology. ... A long introductory chapter by the editor ... proposes a comparative analysis of work in the modern world. ... Graduate students involved in the study of complex organizations will undoubtedly find something stimulating here.-Choice
"The focus here is on complex modern organizations as work environments. The major chapters were contributions by invited sociologists whose several themes include a theory of organizations that provides an alternative to the rational bureaucratic model, a theory of modernization based on energy consumption, and an empirical study of Japanese industries that challenges or supports theories about organizational complexity in terms of size or technology. ... A long introductory chapter by the editor ... proposes a comparative analysis of work in the modern world. ... Graduate students involved in the study of complex organizations will undoubtedly find something stimulating here."-Choice
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