Working Across the Gap
Subtitle: the Practice of Social Science in Organizations
Publisher: Karnac Books
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781780495736; 9780429485220; 9786613249265
Subjects: Industrial organization; Organizational change; Social sciences; Research; Organizational Innovation; Industrie; Organisation, contrôle; Changement organisationnel; Sciences sociales; Recherche; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Negotiating
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.

English.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction; title: the context; title: Ch. 2. Prescription and rationality in management control; title: Ch. 3. Theories of organization; title: a framework for diagnosis; title: Ch. 4. The Esso story; title: Ch. 5. Some episodes from the field; title: Ch. 6. Freightliners Ltd; title: Ch. 7. Problems of application in the social sciences; title: contingency and organization structure, or "organization development"; title: Ch. 8. Social science as a threat to society; title: Ch. 9. Problems of context : a fiasco; title: Ch. 10. Studying the relationship between researchers and users : the nation's diet programme; title: Ch. 11. On the utilization and diffusion of social science; title: Ch. 12. Elements of practice 1 : vision and competence; title: Ch. 13. Elements of practice 2 : infrastructure and institutionalization; title: Ch. 14. Three examples of transitional interventions; title: Ch. 15. On the use of psychoanalytic concepts in organizational social science : two sides of a coin; title: Ch. 16. Inside and outside; title: a struggle for integration.