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A critical realist reply to Walters & Young (2005)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2005). A critical realist reply to Walters & Young. Review of Political Economy, 17(4), 587-600. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538250500253482

In a contribution to this journal, Bernard Walters & David Young offer a brief sketch of critical realism and three objections to it. This reply starts with three points of clarification to their sketch before going on to tackle their objections. © 2... Read More about A critical realist reply to Walters & Young.

Ontology in organization and management studies: A critical realist perspective (2005)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2005). Ontology in organization and management studies: A critical realist perspective. Organization, 12(2), 197-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508405051188

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 cur... Read More about Ontology in organization and management studies: A critical realist perspective.

The ontology of organisation and management studies (2004)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (2004). The ontology of organisation and management studies. In S. Ackroyd, & S. Fleetwood (Eds.), Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies. London: Routledge

Boylan and O'Gorman's causal holism: A critical realist evaluation (2002)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2002). Boylan and O'Gorman's causal holism: A critical realist evaluation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(1), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/26.1.27

Boylan and O'Gorman have recently elaborated an interesting new perspective called causal holism, which attempts to go beyond developments in rhetoric and realism. The aim of this paper is to evaluate causal holism from the perspective of critical re... Read More about Boylan and O'Gorman's causal holism: A critical realist evaluation.

Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective (2001)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2001). Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective. Review of Social Economy, 59(1), 65-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346760010017500

An adequate conceptualization and measurement of unemployment should express the reality of employment. Designing theoretical concepts that adequately express reality requires appropriate methodological foundations. This paper uses critical realism t... Read More about Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective.

What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry (2001)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2001). What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry. Capital and Class, 25(1), 41-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680107300104

This paper uses critical realism to reflect upon the issue of theory in Marx's Labour Theory of Value (LTV). Like any theory, the LTV is rooted in a mode of theorisation. Rooting the LTV in an inappropriate (deductivist) mode of theorisation encourag... Read More about What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry.

The inadequacy of mainstream theories of trade union behaviour (1999)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (1999). The inadequacy of mainstream theories of trade union behaviour. LABOUR, 13(2), 445-480. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9914.00103

This paper identifies four criteria used by mainstream economists of trade unions to judge the adequacy of their various theories. Three of them, however, are hardly ever satisfied. The root cause of this failure is the method adopted by mainstream e... Read More about The inadequacy of mainstream theories of trade union behaviour.

Hayek III: The necessity Of social rules of conduct (1997)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (1997). Hayek III: The necessity Of social rules of conduct. In S. Frowen (Ed.), Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher. A Critical Retrospect. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Critical realism, Marx and Hayek (1997)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (1997). Critical realism, Marx and Hayek. In W. Keizer, B. Tieban, & R. Van Zijp (Eds.), Austrian Economics in Debate. London: Routledge

Aristotle in the 21st Century (1997)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (1997). Aristotle in the 21st Century. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 21(6), 729-744