Book contents
- Management Tools
- Management Tools
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations for Thinking about Management Instrumentation
- 1 Theoretical Foundations
- 2 Traditional Approaches
- Part II Three Major Types of Social Science Approaches
- Part III Synthesis
- General Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Theoretical Foundations
From the Study of Technique to the Analysis of Management Tools
from Part I - Theoretical Foundations for Thinking about Management Instrumentation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2019
Book contents
- Management Tools
- Management Tools
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations for Thinking about Management Instrumentation
- 1 Theoretical Foundations
- 2 Traditional Approaches
- Part II Three Major Types of Social Science Approaches
- Part III Synthesis
- General Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The need to take into account technique in analyses of social phenomena now seems obvious, given the place that it occupies in our industrialised societies, which George Friedmann, one of the founders of the sociology of work, said arises within a ‘technical civilisation’ (Friedmann, 1964). And technique does not exist on its own without the technical objects that the tools constitute. However, for a long time, objects considered as something belonging to the natural order, appeared as intruders in the human sciences (Blandin, 2002, p. 7).
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- Management ToolsA Social Sciences Perspective, pp. 11 - 31Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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