Realist perspectives on management and organisations /
Realist perspectives on management and organisations /
edited by Stephen Ackroyd and Steve Fleetwood.
- xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Critical realism--interventions .
- Critical realism--interventions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The character of contemporary realism -- Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies -- What is management? An outline of a metatheory -- In praise of duality and dualism: rethinking agency and structure in organisational analysis -- Structure, culture and agency: rejecting the current orthodoxy of organisation theory -- Connecting organisations and societies: a realist analysis of structures -- Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process -- Substantive contributions -- Critical realist ethnography: the case of racism and professionalism in a medical setting -- Routines, strategy and change in high-technology small firms -- Managers' innovations and the structuration of organisations -- Case research as a method for industrial networks: a realist apologia -- Structuring the labour market: a segmentation approach -- The British production regime: a societal-specific system? -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
0415242738 9780415242738 0415242746 9780415242745
00056025
Management
Organization
Realism
HD31 / .R432 2000
060.1
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The character of contemporary realism -- Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies -- What is management? An outline of a metatheory -- In praise of duality and dualism: rethinking agency and structure in organisational analysis -- Structure, culture and agency: rejecting the current orthodoxy of organisation theory -- Connecting organisations and societies: a realist analysis of structures -- Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process -- Substantive contributions -- Critical realist ethnography: the case of racism and professionalism in a medical setting -- Routines, strategy and change in high-technology small firms -- Managers' innovations and the structuration of organisations -- Case research as a method for industrial networks: a realist apologia -- Structuring the labour market: a segmentation approach -- The British production regime: a societal-specific system? -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
0415242738 9780415242738 0415242746 9780415242745
00056025
Management
Organization
Realism
HD31 / .R432 2000
060.1