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Record Nr.

UNINA9910679572003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-54645-9

0-203-16443-1

0-415-24274-6

1-134-54646-7

1-280-02118-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Critical realism--interventions

Altri autori (Persone)

AckroydStephen

FleetwoodSteve <1955->

Disciplina

060.1

Soggetti

Management

Organization

Realism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyriht; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies; 2 What is management?; 3 In praise of duality and dualism; 4 Structure, culture and agency; 5 Connecting organisations and societies; 6 Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process1; 7 Critical realist ethnography; 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

11 Structuring the labour market12 The British production regime; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business and management studies. This is the first book-length treatment of critical realism in business and management. It pulls together a wide range of material which is all explicitly or



implicitly rooted in philosophical realism, and combines theoretical writing with substantive contributions addressing issues such as the nature of the firm and the labour process which together demonstrates that realism is a powerful alternative to pos