All Outputs (38)

Gender inequality in work (2014)
Book Chapter

Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown (2014)
Journal Article

In 'Approach with caution: critical realism in social research', Andrew Brown sets out a series of criticisms of critical realism from the perspective of systematic dialectics. This current article is one critical realist's reply to Brown. © The Auth... Read More about Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown.

Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy (2012)
Journal Article

Whilst terms like 'law of the tendency', 'tendency law' and 'tendential law' appear in Marxist political economy, they are unclear. This paper identifies the main conceptions of laws and tendencies and disambiguates them. Part 1 differentiates betwee... Read More about Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy.

Gendered inequality in employment: Editors introduction (2010)
Journal Article

Critical realism in economics (2009)
Book Chapter

The ontology of things, powers and properties (2009)
Journal Article

Institutions and social structures (2008)
Journal Article

This paper clarifies the terms "institutions" and "social structures" and related terms "rules", "conventions", "norms", "values" and "customs". Part one explores the similarities between institutions and social structures whilst the second and third... Read More about Institutions and social structures.

Workers and their alter egos as consumers (2008)
Journal Article

While socialists hardly need reminding that employers often mistreat their workers, we tend to overlook situations in which workers mistreat other workers. This tendency is exacerbated by discourses that urge us to act as consumers, and to treat chea... Read More about Workers and their alter egos as consumers.

Structure, institution, agency, habit and reflexive deliberation (2008)
Journal Article

Austrian economics and the analysis of labor markets (2007)
Journal Article

Theory and policy relating to labor markets is dominated by the mainstream labor market model, although a less well-known, socioeconomic version can also be identified. The mainstream model is methodologically flawed and forced, thereby, to relegate... Read More about Austrian economics and the analysis of labor markets.

Why work-life balance now? (2007)
Journal Article

Re-thinking work-life balance: Editor's introduction (2007)
Journal Article

Searching for the human in empirical research on the human resource - management link (2007)
Book Chapter

Why neoclassical economics explains nothing at all (2007)
Book Chapter

Beyond measuring the human resources management-organizational performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory (2006)
Journal Article

One response to the possible outsourcing of the human resource (HR) function is to turn to 'science' and seek to demonstrate an empirical association between HR practices and increased organizational performance. This paper critically examines the sh... Read More about Beyond measuring the human resources management-organizational performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory.

Gender at critical realism conferences (2006)
Journal Article

Rethinking labour markets: A critical-realist-socioeconomic perspective (2006)
Journal Article

There are currently two main accounts of labour markets: the mainstream labour market (MLM) account, which avoids serious analysis of social structures; and a rather unsystematic SOCIOECONOMIC account, which recognises that labour markets are embedde... Read More about Rethinking labour markets: A critical-realist-socioeconomic perspective.

The case of research on the human resource management-organisational performance link (2006)
Journal Article

Themes and issues: Reply to Shelia Dow and Paul Downward (2006)
Journal Article

Themes and issues: Rejoinder to Sheila Dow and Paul Downward (2006)
Journal Article