Download or read book Understanding Industrial Organizations written by Prof Richard Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.