Information and organizations /

An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizatio...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stinchcombe, Arthur L.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1990.
Collection:California series on social choice and political economy ; 19.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppzmc
Table des matières:
  • Information, Uncertainty, Structure, and Function in Organizational Sociology
  • Individuals' Skills As Information Processing: Charles F. Sabel and the Division of Labor
  • Manufacturing Information Systems: Sources of Technical Uncertainty and the Information for Technical Decisions
  • Market Uncertainty and Divisionalization: Alfred D. Chandler's Strategy and Structure
  • Turning Inventions into Innovations: Schumpeter's Organizational Sociology Modernized
  • Organizing Information Outside the Firm: Contracts As Hierarchical Documents
  • Segmentation of the Labor Market and Information on the Skill of Workers
  • Class Consciousness and Organizational Sociology: E.P. Thompson Applied to Contemporary Class Consciousness
  • University Administration of Research Space and Teaching Loads: Managers Who Do Not Know What Their Workers Are Doing.