TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackroyd,Stephen
AU  - Fleetwood,Steve
TI  - Realist perspectives on management and organisations
T2  - Critical realism--interventions
SN  - 0415242738
AV  - HD31 .R432 2000
U1  - 060.1 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Management
KW  - Organization
KW  - Realism
N1  - 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
ER  -