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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 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 Edited By Stephen Ackroyd And Steve Fleetwood. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. English