International Yearbook of Organization Studies 1981 (RLE: Organizations)

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

‘The International Yearbook is a refreshing collection of modern, diverse and contentious articles aimed at stimulating the sociology of organizations into one of the key areas of sociological debate…The papers taunt, cajole and penetrate much of traditional theory’ David Wilson, Sociology, Vol 15, No. 3

• 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.