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  1. Why Power (Dunamis) Ontology of Causation is Relevant to Managers: Dialogue as an Illustration.Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (3):449-472.
    Since management is about influencing - influencing people who work in the organization, the structure and practices of the organization, as well as its environment - how ‘influencing’ is understood evidently makes a huge difference. The still popular empiricist concept of cause-effect relations as presupposing regularities is mistaken, since it forms no sufficient basis for action in new and unique situations. As alternative notions of causation, the paper discusses the Critical Realist conception of causal powers and the counterfactual conditional view, (...)
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  • Reflections on How to Apply Norbert Elias’ Philosophy of Figurations to Problems of Marketing.Roshni Das - 2022 - Philosophy of Management 22 (2):247-260.
    Pragmatic Critical Realism has been acclaimed by several scholars as one of the most versatile, application friendly and philosophically consistent paradigms for the social sciences, especially management research (Fleetwood and Ackroyd 2004). One of the more visible methodological offshoots of this epistemological school, being the case study, which has been extensively deployed as a dominant method in strategic management, organizational studies and marketing literatures. Until recently, there was some consternation in the academic world about the insufficiency of recourses available to (...)
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  • Philosophy of Management as Moving Beyond Critical Axiologies?Stephen Sheard & Mark Dibben - 2013 - Philosophy of Management 12 (1):1-6.
    In this article I look at CR (critical realism)1 as chiefly exhibited in the seminal theory of Ron Bhaskar – in particular, his early theory of transcendental realism. I examine its mechanisms of thought and pick out some difficulties with the theorisation relative to its deployment by OS theorists and relative to recent attempts to deploy CR as a theory which can bridge the fork in the constructivist and realist areas known as a form of ‘divide’ in the discipline (fault (...)
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