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The book provides a practical guide to the application of Critical Realism (CR), an increasingly popular philosophy of social science, in empirical research projects. Each purpose-written chapter reviews major social science research methods and contains extended illustration of how to conduct inquiry using CR.
List of contents
- Foreword
- 1: Joe O Mahoney and Steve Vincent: Critical Realism as an Empirical Project: A Beginner s Guide
- 2: Stephen Ackroyd and Jan Ch. Karlsson: Critical Realism, Research Techniques, and Research Designs
- 3: Wendy Sims-Schouten and Sarah Riley: Employing a Form of Critical Realist Discourse Analysis for Identity Research: An Example from Women s Talk of Motherhood, Childcare and Employment
- 4: Abigail Marks and Joe O Mahoney: Researching Identity: a Critical Realist Approach
- 5: Steve Kempster and Ken Parry: Critical Realism and Grounded Theory
- 6: Chris Smith and Tony Elger: Critical Realism and Interviewing Subjects
- 7: Chris Rees and Mark Gatenby: Critical Realism and Ethnography
- 8: Steve Vincent and Robert Wapshott: Critical Realism and the Organizational Case Study: A Guide to Discovering Institutional Mechanisms
- 9: Ian Kessler and Stephen Bach: Comparing Cases
- 10: AyseSaka-Helmhout: Critical Realism and International Comparative Research
- 11: Monder Ram, Paul Edwards Trevor Jones, Alex Kiselinchev and LovemoreMuchenje: Pulling the Levers of Agency: Implementing Critical Realist Action Research
- 12: Alistair Mutch: History and Documents in Critical Realism
- 13: Scott A. Hurrell: Critical Realism and Mixed Methods Research: Combining the Extensive and Intensive at Multiple Levels
- 14: Joanne Greenhalgh: Realist Synthesis
- 15: Malcolm Williams: Probability and Models
- 16: Andrew Brown and John Michael Roberts: An Appraisal of the Contribution of Critical Realism to Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology: Is Dialectics the Way Forward?
- 17: Paul K. Edwards, Steve Vincent and Joe O Mahoney: Concluding Comments
About the author
Paul Edwards has been Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Birmingham since 2011; he was previously at Warwick University, where he was Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit. He has published widely on work and employment, including The Politics of Working Life (with Judy Wajcman; OUP, 2005). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and is editor-in-chief of Human Relations.
Joe O'Mahoney is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and was previously Head of Business Analysis at Three, a senior strategy consultant and the founder of StayMobile Technology LLP. He has published widely on the consulting industry, and more recently on critical realism, in Work, Employment and Society, Organisation Studies, Organisation, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Business Ethics.
Steve Vincent is Professor of Human Resource Management at Newcastle University since 2012. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Leeds. He has published widely in books and journals, including articles in Human Relations; Journal of Management Studies; Work, Employment and Society; Public Administration, and New Technology, Work and Employment. He has also been a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society journal.
Summary
The book provides a practical guide to the application of Critical Realism (CR), an increasingly popular philosophy of social science, in empirical research projects. Each purpose-written chapter reviews major social science research methods and contains extended illustration of how to conduct inquiry using CR.
Additional text
this work provides a timely and useful guide for the design and use of research techniques when informed through critical realism.
