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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415242738 9780415242738 0415242746 9780415242745 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00056025 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Management<br/>Organization<br/>Realism
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD31  / .R432 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>060.1