Local orders : dynamics of organized action

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Local orders : dynamics of organized action

by Erhard Friedberg ; a translation by Emoretta Yang

(Monographs in organizational behavior and industrial relations / edited by Samuel B. Bacharach, v. 19)

JAI Press, c1997

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Pouvoir et la règle

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Translation of: Pouvoir et la règle

Bibliography: p. 289-304

Includes indexes

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This handbook compiles the latest knowledge in critical areas of human resource management, including employee financial and non-financial participation in the enterprise, employer flexibility, unions, collective bargaining and workplace dispute resolution.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - organization and collective action. Part 1 Dismantling the idea of organization: affectivity and calculus - the relativization of rationality
  • from instrumental organization to organized anarchies - questioning organization cohesion
  • the organization and its environment - fuzzy organizational borders. Part 2 From organization to organized action: the structuration of contexts of action - interdependence, negotiated exchange and the sustainability of actors
  • the mixed regulation of field of action - the notion of a concrete system of action
  • local orders and social regulation. Part 3 The organizational approach to collective action - elements of a mode of reasoning: actors and their rationality
  • the contingency of actors - the notion of system
  • power as capacity for action. Part 4 The organizational approach as a tool - implications for research and action: the construction of a grounded theory - induction and pragmatic value in analyses
  • the importance of the strategy of change
  • a cognitive operation - the gamble on knowledge and reasoning. Conclusion - another way of relating theory to practice.

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