Working across the gap : the practice of social science in organizations /: the practice of social science in organizations. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lisl Klein.
• Other Names: Klein, Lisl
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Subjects: 302.3/5; Industrial organization; Organizational change; Social sciences -- Research; Industrial organization; Organizational change; Social sciences -- Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429924224; 0429924224
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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