Steve Vincent
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Vincent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Vincent |
| SIGNATURE | VINCENT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9582-3963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
It's One Rule for Them and One for Us: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour
In this article, we focus on gender and class to investigate worktime domestic labour. Methodologically, we extend a novel, comparative critical realist method in which occupation-based and gendered positions in productive and reproductive labour are foregrounded. By building theoretical connections between labour process conditions and collective rule-following practices, we illustrate how inequalities are inscribed organisationally. Our analysi…
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation
This article critiques equality regulation within neoliberal policy regimes and suggests an alternative. We argue that, globally, neoliberal regimes exacerbate social divisions by individualising responsibilities for addressing inequalities. Consequentially, a new policy direction for equality regulation is required. Using the UK economy as an exemplar, we make the case for relational responsibilisation, which involves raising awareness of workpl…
Entrepreneurial agency and field relations: A Realist Bourdieusian Analysis
This article addresses the problem of understanding and assessing how entrepreneurial and self-employed workers engage with economic fields as they pursue their interests. It considers the differing experiences of entrepreneurial workers by developing a transferable approach to studying the relations between their environments, practices and values. The approach developed combines Bourdieusian and critical realist scholarship to explore qualitati…
Realist studies of oppression, emancipation and resistance
This article introduces two papers in a special section of this journal. It explains why realist studies of oppression, emancipation and resistance are needed. We trace the development of studies in this area, noting their Marxist roots, divergence with post-structural theorising and more recent critical realist advancements. We conclude by highlighting the weaknesses in studies of this area and by arguing that progress is important for understan…
Labor Process
Modern approaches to the labor process owe much to the work of Karl Marx. For Marx, the capitalist production process involves a labor process, or a specific mode of work organization, and valorization , in which surplus value is appropriated by capital. Valorization is possible because capital owns the products and/or services created by labor as a result of their acquisition of labor power , or the capacity for work which the worker sells for w…
Bourdieu and the gendered social structure of working time: A study of self-employed human resources professionals
This article uses the sociology of Bourdieu to explore the social structure of working time and uses this approach to analyse interview data from 25 self-employed human resources professionals practicing in the UK. Bourdieu’s approach to exploring resources, as forms of capital that are deployed strategically by actors within social fields, is used to compare outcomes for respondents with different working time patterns. The findings demonstrate …
Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative
Meta-analysis has proved increasingly popular in management and organization studies as a way of combining existing empirical quantitative research to generate a statistical estimate of how strongly variables are associated. Whilst a number of studies identify technical, procedural and practical limitations of meta-analyses, none have yet tackled the meta-theoretical flaws in this approach. We deploy critical realist meta-theory to argue that the…
Putting the Agent into Research in Black and Minority Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A New Methodological Proposal
This paper considers what realist social theory (RST) can add to existing knowledge about black and minority ethnic (BME) entrepreneurs and outlines a methodology for exploring the role of the BME entrepreneur. For this group, embodied signifiers such as skills and abilities, cultural characteristics, social norms, and value systems combine with structural antecedents, such as financial, contractual, professional, and other national and regional …
Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide
The emotional labour process: An essay on the economy of feelings
This article evaluates conceptual resources for exploring the economy of feelings. It reviews existing contributions, discovering tensions surrounding the material status of emotional displays and normative commitments at work, as well as significant gaps within the conceptual resources used to classify the emotions we experience and evoke while working. In an effort to develop more robust categories for this broad area, labour process theory is …
A transmutation theory of inter-organizational exchange relations and networks: Applying critical realism to analysis of collective agency
This article outlines a critical realist approach to inter-organizational relations and networks. It reviews existing criticisms of the main theoretical contributions within this substantive topic area and argues that most have explained outcomes by referring to the structural antecedents that condition the different contexts which actors behave within. This downplays the impact of social processes and how these are shaped by the behavioural orie…
Really dealing: A Critical Perspective on Inter-Organizational Exchange Networks
Concepts such as 'relational contracting', 'the flexible firm' and 'flexible specialization' are all associated with intense academic effort directed to understanding both contractual inter-organizational relationships and the networks that sustain them. This article adopts a Realist position and draws on case study evidence in an attempt to contribute to the literature on this subject. It argues that considering inter-organizational exchange net…
New technology and changing organisational forms: Implications for managerial control and skills
Changes in organisational forms are central to the way new technologies impact on the future of work and employment. Drawing on case–study evidence of a call centre and its client relations and a multinational IT firm and its partnership with a government department, this paper explores the implications for skill and managerial control
Going privately: Partnership and outsourcing in UK public services
Public private partnerships provide an important illustration of the way the traditional role of government as employer and service provider is being transformed. While policy–makers argue that the growing role of the private sector is not driven by ideological thinking – that, in fact, both public and private sector organizations can benefit from working together in partnership relations – in practice it is the norms and rules of private sector …
Going privately: Partnership and outsourcing in UK public services
Public private partnerships provide an important illustration of the way the traditional role of government as employer and service provider is being transformed. While policy–makers argue that the growing role of the private sector is not driven by ideological thinking – that, in fact, both public and private sector organizations can benefit from working together in partnership relations – in practice it is the norms and rules of private sector …
The emotional labour process: An essay on the economy of feelings
This article evaluates conceptual resources for exploring the economy of feelings. It reviews existing contributions, discovering tensions surrounding the material status of emotional displays and normative commitments at work, as well as significant gaps within the conceptual resources used to classify the emotions we experience and evoke while working. In an effort to develop more robust categories for this broad area, labour process theory is …
Bourdieu and the gendered social structure of working time: A study of self-employed human resources professionals
This article uses the sociology of Bourdieu to explore the social structure of working time and uses this approach to analyse interview data from 25 self-employed human resources professionals practicing in the UK. Bourdieu’s approach to exploring resources, as forms of capital that are deployed strategically by actors within social fields, is used to compare outcomes for respondents with different working time patterns. The findings demonstrate …
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation
This article critiques equality regulation within neoliberal policy regimes and suggests an alternative. We argue that, globally, neoliberal regimes exacerbate social divisions by individualising responsibilities for addressing inequalities. Consequentially, a new policy direction for equality regulation is required. Using the UK economy as an exemplar, we make the case for relational responsibilisation, which involves raising awareness of workpl…
Entrepreneurial agency and field relations: A Realist Bourdieusian Analysis
This article addresses the problem of understanding and assessing how entrepreneurial and self-employed workers engage with economic fields as they pursue their interests. It considers the differing experiences of entrepreneurial workers by developing a transferable approach to studying the relations between their environments, practices and values. The approach developed combines Bourdieusian and critical realist scholarship to explore qualitati…
Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative
Meta-analysis has proved increasingly popular in management and organization studies as a way of combining existing empirical quantitative research to generate a statistical estimate of how strongly variables are associated. Whilst a number of studies identify technical, procedural and practical limitations of meta-analyses, none have yet tackled the meta-theoretical flaws in this approach. We deploy critical realist meta-theory to argue that the…
New technology and changing organisational forms: Implications for managerial control and skills
Changes in organisational forms are central to the way new technologies impact on the future of work and employment. Drawing on case–study evidence of a call centre and its client relations and a multinational IT firm and its partnership with a government department, this paper explores the implications for skill and managerial control
Really dealing: A Critical Perspective on Inter-Organizational Exchange Networks
Concepts such as 'relational contracting', 'the flexible firm' and 'flexible specialization' are all associated with intense academic effort directed to understanding both contractual inter-organizational relationships and the networks that sustain them. This article adopts a Realist position and draws on case study evidence in an attempt to contribute to the literature on this subject. It argues that considering inter-organizational exchange net…
Realist studies of oppression, emancipation and resistance
This article introduces two papers in a special section of this journal. It explains why realist studies of oppression, emancipation and resistance are needed. We trace the development of studies in this area, noting their Marxist roots, divergence with post-structural theorising and more recent critical realist advancements. We conclude by highlighting the weaknesses in studies of this area and by arguing that progress is important for understan…
It's One Rule for Them and One for Us: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour
In this article, we focus on gender and class to investigate worktime domestic labour. Methodologically, we extend a novel, comparative critical realist method in which occupation-based and gendered positions in productive and reproductive labour are foregrounded. By building theoretical connections between labour process conditions and collective rule-following practices, we illustrate how inequalities are inscribed organisationally. Our analysi…
A transmutation theory of inter-organizational exchange relations and networks: Applying critical realism to analysis of collective agency
This article outlines a critical realist approach to inter-organizational relations and networks. It reviews existing criticisms of the main theoretical contributions within this substantive topic area and argues that most have explained outcomes by referring to the structural antecedents that condition the different contexts which actors behave within. This downplays the impact of social processes and how these are shaped by the behavioural orie…
New technology and changing organisational forms: Implications for managerial control and skills
Changes in organisational forms are central to the way new technologies impact on the future of work and employment. Drawing on case–study evidence of a call centre and its client relations and a multinational IT firm and its partnership with a government department, this paper explores the implications for skill and managerial control
Going privately: Partnership and outsourcing in UK public services
Public private partnerships provide an important illustration of the way the traditional role of government as employer and service provider is being transformed. While policy–makers argue that the growing role of the private sector is not driven by ideological thinking – that, in fact, both public and private sector organizations can benefit from working together in partnership relations – in practice it is the norms and rules of private sector …
Really dealing: A Critical Perspective on Inter-Organizational Exchange Networks
Concepts such as 'relational contracting', 'the flexible firm' and 'flexible specialization' are all associated with intense academic effort directed to understanding both contractual inter-organizational relationships and the networks that sustain them. This article adopts a Realist position and draws on case study evidence in an attempt to contribute to the literature on this subject. It argues that considering inter-organizational exchange net…
A transmutation theory of inter-organizational exchange relations and networks: Applying critical realism to analysis of collective agency
This article outlines a critical realist approach to inter-organizational relations and networks. It reviews existing criticisms of the main theoretical contributions within this substantive topic area and argues that most have explained outcomes by referring to the structural antecedents that condition the different contexts which actors behave within. This downplays the impact of social processes and how these are shaped by the behavioural orie…
The emotional labour process: An essay on the economy of feelings
This article evaluates conceptual resources for exploring the economy of feelings. It reviews existing contributions, discovering tensions surrounding the material status of emotional displays and normative commitments at work, as well as significant gaps within the conceptual resources used to classify the emotions we experience and evoke while working. In an effort to develop more robust categories for this broad area, labour process theory is …
Putting the Agent into Research in Black and Minority Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A New Methodological Proposal
This paper considers what realist social theory (RST) can add to existing knowledge about black and minority ethnic (BME) entrepreneurs and outlines a methodology for exploring the role of the BME entrepreneur. For this group, embodied signifiers such as skills and abilities, cultural characteristics, social norms, and value systems combine with structural antecedents, such as financial, contractual, professional, and other national and regional …
Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide
Bourdieu and the gendered social structure of working time: A study of self-employed human resources professionals
This article uses the sociology of Bourdieu to explore the social structure of working time and uses this approach to analyse interview data from 25 self-employed human resources professionals practicing in the UK. Bourdieu’s approach to exploring resources, as forms of capital that are deployed strategically by actors within social fields, is used to compare outcomes for respondents with different working time patterns. The findings demonstrate …
Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative
Meta-analysis has proved increasingly popular in management and organization studies as a way of combining existing empirical quantitative research to generate a statistical estimate of how strongly variables are associated. Whilst a number of studies identify technical, procedural and practical limitations of meta-analyses, none have yet tackled the meta-theoretical flaws in this approach. We deploy critical realist meta-theory to argue that the…
Labor Process
Modern approaches to the labor process owe much to the work of Karl Marx. For Marx, the capitalist production process involves a labor process, or a specific mode of work organization, and valorization , in which surplus value is appropriated by capital. Valorization is possible because capital owns the products and/or services created by labor as a result of their acquisition of labor power , or the capacity for work which the worker sells for w…
Realist studies of oppression, emancipation and resistance
This article introduces two papers in a special section of this journal. It explains why realist studies of oppression, emancipation and resistance are needed. We trace the development of studies in this area, noting their Marxist roots, divergence with post-structural theorising and more recent critical realist advancements. We conclude by highlighting the weaknesses in studies of this area and by arguing that progress is important for understan…
Entrepreneurial agency and field relations: A Realist Bourdieusian Analysis
This article addresses the problem of understanding and assessing how entrepreneurial and self-employed workers engage with economic fields as they pursue their interests. It considers the differing experiences of entrepreneurial workers by developing a transferable approach to studying the relations between their environments, practices and values. The approach developed combines Bourdieusian and critical realist scholarship to explore qualitati…
It's One Rule for Them and One for Us: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour
In this article, we focus on gender and class to investigate worktime domestic labour. Methodologically, we extend a novel, comparative critical realist method in which occupation-based and gendered positions in productive and reproductive labour are foregrounded. By building theoretical connections between labour process conditions and collective rule-following practices, we illustrate how inequalities are inscribed organisationally. Our analysi…
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation
This article critiques equality regulation within neoliberal policy regimes and suggests an alternative. We argue that, globally, neoliberal regimes exacerbate social divisions by individualising responsibilities for addressing inequalities. Consequentially, a new policy direction for equality regulation is required. Using the UK economy as an exemplar, we make the case for relational responsibilisation, which involves raising awareness of workpl…
Sociology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (4 works)