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Realist perspectives on management and organisations / edited by Stephen Ackroyd and Steve Fleetwood.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical realism--interventionsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415242738
  • 9780415242738
  • 0415242746
  • 9780415242745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 060.1 21
LOC classification:
  • HD31 .R432 2000
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. I. The character of contemporary realism -- 1. Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies -- 2. What is management? An outline of a metatheory -- 3. In praise of duality and dualism: rethinking agency and structure in organisational analysis -- 4. Structure, culture and agency: rejecting the current orthodoxy of organisation theory -- 5. Connecting organisations and societies: a realist analysis of structures -- 6. Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process -- Pt. II. Substantive contributions -- 7. Critical realist ethnography: the case of racism and professionalism in a medical setting -- 8. Routines, strategy and change in high-technology small firms -- 9. Managers' innovations and the structuration of organisations -- 10. Case research as a method for industrial networks: a realist apologia -- 11. Structuring the labour market: a segmentation approach -- 12. The British production regime: a societal-specific system? -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. I. The character of contemporary realism -- 1. Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies -- 2. What is management? An outline of a metatheory -- 3. In praise of duality and dualism: rethinking agency and structure in organisational analysis -- 4. Structure, culture and agency: rejecting the current orthodoxy of organisation theory -- 5. Connecting organisations and societies: a realist analysis of structures -- 6. Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process -- Pt. II. Substantive contributions -- 7. Critical realist ethnography: the case of racism and professionalism in a medical setting -- 8. Routines, strategy and change in high-technology small firms -- 9. Managers' innovations and the structuration of organisations -- 10. Case research as a method for industrial networks: a realist apologia -- 11. Structuring the labour market: a segmentation approach -- 12. The British production regime: a societal-specific system? -- Index.

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