This is the first book-length treatment of critical realism in business and management. It pulls together a wide range of material and addresses issues such as the nature of the firm and the labour process.

Part 1 Theory and Metatheory 1. Locating Realist Perspectives in Management and Organization Studies Stephen Ackroyd and Steve Fleetwood 2. What is Management: An Outline of Metatheory Haridimous Tsoukas 3. In Praise of Duality and Dualism: Rethinking Agency and Structure in Organisational Analysis Michael I. Reed 4. Structure, Culture and Agency: Rejecting the Current Orthodoxy of Organisation Theory Robert Willmott 5. Connecting Organisations and Societies: A Realist Analysis of Structures Stephen Ackroyd 6. Critical Realism and the Labour Process Steve Pratten Part 2 Susbstantive Contributions 7. Critical Realist Ethnography: The Case of Racism and Professionalism in a Medical Setting Sam Porter 8. Routines, Strategy and Change in High-Technology Small Firms Neil Costello 9. Managers' Innovations and the Structuration of Organisations John Coopey, Orla Keegan and Nick Elmer 10. Case Research as a Methodology for Industrial Networks: A Realist Apologia Geoff Easton 11. Structuring the Labour Market: A Segmentation Approach Jamie Peck 12. The British Production Regime: A Societal-Specific System? Jill Rubery and Nick Elmer.