Realist Perspectives on Management and Organisations Critical Realism Interventions 1st Edition by Stephen Ackroyd ISBN 978-1134546411 1134546411

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ISBN 10:   1134546411

ISBN 13: 978-1134546411

Author: Stephen Ackroyd

Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business and management studies. This is the first book-length treatment of critical realism in business and management.

It pulls together a wide range of material which is all explicitly or implicitly rooted in philosophical realism, and combines theoretical writing with substantive contributions addressing issues such as the nature of the firm and the labour process which together demonstrates that realism is a powerful alternative to postmodernism and positivism.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: Theory and Metatheory

1. Locating Realist Perspectives in Management and Organization Studies – Stephen Ackroyd and Steve Fleetwood

2. What is Management: An Outline of Metatheory – Haridimos Tsoukas

3. In Praise of Duality and Dualism: Rethinking Agency and Structure in Organisational Analysis – Michael I. Reed

4. Structure, Culture and Agency: Rejecting the Current Orthodoxy of Organisation Theory – Robert Willmott

5. Connecting Organisations and Societies: A Realist Analysis of Structures – Stephen Ackroyd

6. Critical Realism and the Labour Process – Steve Pratten

Part 2: Substantive Contributions

7. Critical Realist Ethnography: The Case of Racism and Professionalism in a Medical Setting – Sam Porter

8. Routines, Strategy and Change in High-Technology Small Firms – Neil Costello

9. Managers’ Innovations and the Structuration of Organisations – John Coopey, Orla Keegan and Nick Elmer

10. Case Research as a Methodology for Industrial Networks: A Realist Apologia – Geoff Easton

11. Structuring the Labour Market: A Segmentation Approach – Jamie Peck

12. The British Production Regime: A Societal-Specific System? – Jill Rubery and Nick Elmer

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