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Working Across the Gap : the Practice of Social Science in Organizations.

A collection of papers exploring the use and application of social science in organisations from an expert with over forty years experience in her field.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Karnac Books 2005.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction
  • the context
  • Ch. 2. Prescription and rationality in management control
  • Ch. 3. Theories of organization
  • a framework for diagnosis
  • Ch. 4. The Esso story
  • Ch. 5. Some episodes from the field
  • Ch. 6. Freightliners Ltd
  • Ch. 7. Problems of application in the social sciences
  • contingency and organization structure, or "organization development"
  • Ch. 8. Social science as a threat to society
  • Ch. 9. Problems of context : a fiasco
  • Ch. 10. Studying the relationship between researchers and users : the nation's diet programme
  • Ch. 11. On the utilization and diffusion of social science
  • Ch. 12. Elements of practice 1 : vision and competence
  • Ch. 13. Elements of practice 2 : infrastructure and institutionalization
  • Ch. 14. Three examples of transitional interventions
  • Ch. 15. On the use of psychoanalytic concepts in organizational social science : two sides of a coin
  • Ch. 16. Inside and outside
  • a struggle for integration.