Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies

Steve Fleetwood, Stephen Ackroyd - Collection Critical Realism: Interventions

366 pages, parution le 25/10/2004

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Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organisation and management is being studied. This book argues for an alternative to the prevailing ontology and shows how positivism and its empirical realist ontology can be abandoned without having to accept strong social constructionism.

Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies applies critical realism in four ways. First, in the removal of meta-theoretical obstacles that hinder the development of fruitful theoretical and empirical work. Second and third, as a meta-theoretical tool with which to develop appropriate methodological and theoretical frameworks which can then be used to inform appropriate empirical work. And finally, all of this is applied across a broad range of subject areas including critical management studies, accountancy, marketing, health care management, operations research, the nature of work, human resource management, labour process theory, regional analysis, and work and labour market studies.

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List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Editors' introduction: critical realist applications in organisation and management studies
Foreword: why critical realism?
Meta-theory: critique and development
- An ontology for organisation and management studies
- Brands, boundaries and bandwagons: a critical reflection on critical management studies
- Idealism and ideology: the Caterpillar controversy in critical accounting research
- The ontology of work: social relations and doing in the sphere of necessity
- Human resource management and realism: a morphogenetic approach
Methodology: critique and development
- Methodology for management and organisation studies: some implications of critical realism
- Future directions in management science modelling: critical realism and multimethodology
- Temporally embedded case comparison in industrial marketing research
- Theorising networks from a critical realist standpoint: the discovery of power and contextual issues within and outside 'networks'
- Competence theories
Substantive contributions
- Working in teams: ethnographic evidence from two 'high performance' workplaces
- Humour and subversion in two call centres
- Tracing the effects of a hospital merger
- The moral management of nursing labour power: conceptualising control and resistance
- I say tomato, you say tamato: putting critical realism to work in the knowledge worker recruitment process
Index of names
Index of subjects

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Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Steve Fleetwood, Stephen Ackroyd
Collection	Critical Realism: Interventions
Parution	25/10/2004
Nb. de pages	366
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	587g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415345101
ISBN13	978-0-415-34510-1