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Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies
Steve Fleetwood,Stephen Ackroyd +1 more
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In this paper, the authors present an ontology for management and management studies with a focus on the discovery of power and contextual issues within and outside 'networks' and present a meta-theory for critique and development.Abstract:
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 Processesread more
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Critical realism in case study research
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1 Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication
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Validation in interpretive management accounting research
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What makes a good case study? A positivist review of qualitative case research published in Industrial Marketing Management, 1971–2006
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A critical realist rationale for using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods
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