Studying organizations using critical realism: a practical guide

by Edwards, P. K., (Paul K.) O'Mahoney, Joe Vincent, Steve

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Full title :Studying organizations using critical realism : a practical guide / edited by Paul K. Edwards, Joe O'Mahoney, and Steve Vincent.

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This book aims to fill a significant gap in the literature by providing a practical guide to the application of Critical Realism (CR) in empirical research projects. It explores the methodological consequences of committing to a CR ontology, the assumptions that researchers from this tradition make about the nature of reality. These assumptions are important because ontological commitments, which relate what we believe exists, often affect our epistemological concerns, which relate to our beliefs about how whatever exists can be studied and known. Thus, for a researcher, ontology and epistemology are important because they have consequences for the possibilities and limits of the research methods, techniques, and analyses that they employ. The book explains what CR is and outlines the logic of research design. In a series of chapters on major social science research methods, purpose-written by experts in the relevant technique, the book contains extended illustration of how to conduct inquiry using CR.