Ontology in Organization and Management Studies
A Critical Realist Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8106576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Fleetwood (Lancaster University Management School, UK,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-222 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350508405051188 |
| OpenAlex | W1964099523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
| References cited | 28 |
Organization studies has recently been captured by a cultural, linguistic, poststructural or postmodern turn, the impetus for which has come from the ontological turn from a (naive) realist ontology to a socially constructed ontology. Much of the current ontological discussion is, however, characterized by ambiguity, which makes it difficult to get to the bottom of ontological claims and, of course, to locate the source of any ontological errors. This paper uses a critical realist perspective to highlight the ambiguity and error encouraged by postmodernism’s commitment to a socially constructed ontology. Critical realism’s ontology is offered as a more fruitful alternative. Labour process theory, specifically agency and structure, is used to demonstrate (i) that critical realism is not damaged by many common postmodern criticisms of agency and structure, and (ii) that, once interpreted through the prism of critical realism, there is no need to abandon this powerful analytical device
Agency (philosophy · Ambiguity · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Epistemology · Linguistics · Ontology · Perspective (graphical · Postmodernism · Realism · Sociology · Computer Science · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Critical Realism in Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
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Constitutional Amendments
Critical Realism and Affordances
Organizing Conflict
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Diamantes de sangue e excrementos do diabo
La Economía Política del Turismo en Brasil (2003-2016)
Critical realist approach
Exploring the intersections
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MacIntyre, Managerialism, and Metatheory
Explaining leadership
A critical realist method for applied business research
Methodological implications of critical realism for entrepreneurship research
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What if? Fine-tuning the expectations of business simulation technology through the lens of philosophical counterfactual analysis
Varieties of organizational soul
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Understanding the rift, the (still) uneasy bedfellows of History and Organization Studies
A Critical Realist Approach To Institutional Entrepreneurship
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Redrawing Foucault's Social Ontology
Leadership
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Epistemological Issues in Qualitative Migration Research
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A case study investigating the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on participation in two non-traditional English sports, Judo and Fencing
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Critical realism and constructivism
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Why the epistemologies of trust researchers matter
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Exploring the politics of linguistic difference
Capturing Reflexivity Modes in Is
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Critical social literacy
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Revisiting “Organizations as Discursive Constructions”
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Re‐examining technology's destruction of blue‐collar work
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Dialectics of leadership
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Embracing essentialism
Agent-Based Modeling and Organization Studies
Five potentials of critical realism in management and organization studies
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Mental Illness, Social Suffering and Structural Antagonism in the Labour Process
A Critical Realist Model for Organizational Sociology
From Beveridge to Turner
Social media and the promise of excellence in internal communication
Sensemaking in organizations
An Invitation to Social Construction
Representing Reality
Being Human
On the Way to Knowledge
The Limits of Discourse Analysis in Organizational Analysis
The Roots of Uncertainty in Organization Theory
Discourse Analysis Organizational Analysis
Overview
Consumption and Identity at Work
Realism and Social Science
Being Human
Rhetoric, Science, and Philosophy
Realism, Causality and the Problem of Social Structure
Debating Labour Process Theory
Oversocialised Epistemology
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |