Realist Perspectives on Management and Organisations (Critical Realism--Interventions)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyriht......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Part I The character of contemporary realism......Page 18
1 Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies......Page 20
2 What is management?......Page 43
3 In praise of duality and dualism......Page 62
4 Structure, culture and agency......Page 83
5 Connecting organisations and societies......Page 104
6 Structure, agency and Marx’s analysis of the labour process1......Page 126
Part II Substantive contributions......Page 156
7 Critical realist ethnography......Page 158
8 Routines, strategy and change in high-technology small firms......Page 178
9 Managers’ innovations and the structuration of organisations......Page 198
10 Case research as a method for industrial networks......Page 222
11 Structuring the labour market......Page 237
12 The British production regime......Page 262
Index......Page 282