Stephen Ackroyd / Steve Fleetwood (eds.)

Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies

Herausgeber: Ackroyd, Stephen; Fleetwood, Steve

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Produktbeschreibung

Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organization 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 (anti-realist) social constructionism. This book 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 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, labor process theory, regional analysis and work and labor markets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780415345101
• ISBN-10: 0415345103
• Artikelnr.: 21894942

Autorenporträt

Steve Fleetwood is a senior lecturer in the department of Organisations, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School where he teaches Employment Relations and HRM. His publications include Hayek's Political Economy,The Socio Economics of Order (1995); Critical Realism in Economics: Development and Debate (1999); Realist Perspectives on Organisation and Management (2000) and Critical Realism and Marxism (2002). Stephen Ackroyd is Professor of Organisational Analysis and Head of the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School. His books include Organisational Misbehaviour (1999)and The Organization of Business (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Meta-Theory: Critique and Development 1. An Ontology for
Organisation and Management Studies 2. Brands, Boundaries and Bandwagons: A
Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies 3. Idealism and
Ideology: The Caterpillar Controversy in Critical Accounting Research 4.
The Ontology Of Work: Social Relations and Doing in the Sphere of Necessity
5. Human Resource Management and Realism: A Morphogenetic Approach Part 2:
Methodology: Critique and development 6. Methodology for Management and
Organisation Studies: Some Implications of Critical Realism 7. Future
Directions in Operations Research Modelling: Critical Realism and
Multimethodology 8. Temporally Embedded Case Comparison In Industrial
Marketing Research 9. Theorizing Networks From A Critical Realist
Standpoint: The Discovery of Power and Contextual Issues Within and Outside
'Networks' 10. Competence Theories and their Methodological Implications
Part 3: Substantive Contributions 11. Working in Teams: Ethnographic
Evidence on the High Commitment Workplace 12. Humour and Subversion in Two
Call Centres 13. Tracing the Effects of a Hospital Merger 14. The Moral
Management of Nursing Labour Power: Conceptualising Control and Resistance
15. I Say Tomato, You Say Tamato: Putting Critical Realism to Work in
Labour Market Recruitment Processes