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Ontology and the Current Economic Crisis (2017)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (2017). Ontology and the Current Economic Crisis. In L. Urs, & M. Dimitri (Eds.), Critical Realism meets kritische Sozialtheorie: Ontologie, Erklärung und Kritik in den Sozialwissenschaften (167-193). Bielefeld: Transcript

There are, meta-theoretically speaking, two main ways to investigate socio-economic phenomena in general and the current economic crisis in particular, each one rooted in its own ontology. The first, which I refer to as `scientistic-oriented economic... Read More about Ontology and the Current Economic Crisis.

Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative (2016)
Journal Article
Brannan, M., Fleetwood, S., Mahoney, J., & Vincent, S. (2017). Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative. Human Relations, 70(1), 11-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726716674063

Meta-analysis has proved increasingly popular in management and organization studies as a way of combining existing empirical quantitative research to generate a statistical estimate of how strongly variables are associated. Whilst a number of studie... Read More about Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative.

The critical realist conception of open and closed systems (2016)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2017). The critical realist conception of open and closed systems. Journal of Economic Methodology, 24(1), 41-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2016.1218532

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The critical realist (CR) conception of open and closed (O&C) systems is not about systems: it is about (ir)regularities in the flux of events and states of affairs. It has recently been... Read More about The critical realist conception of open and closed systems.

Reflections upon neoclassical labour economics (2016)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (2016). Reflections upon neoclassical labour economics. In J. Morgan (Ed.), What is Neoclassical Economics? Debating the Origins, Meaning and Significance (273-311). London: Routledge

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(Mis)understanding labour markets (2016)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (2016). (Mis)understanding labour markets. In J. Murray (Ed.), Labor Markets: Analysis, Regulation and Outcomes (1-85). New York: Nova Science Publishers

Critics of orthodox economics, and in particular orthodox labour economics, often argue that orthodox models of labour markets are unrealistic and false. Most orthodox economists accept this criticism and proceed immediately to three defences: (1) al... Read More about (Mis)understanding labour markets.

Why study HRM? (2015)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (2015). Why study HRM?. In K. Vaidya (Ed.), Human Resource Management for the Curious: Why Study Human Resource Management?. The Curious Academic Publishing

From labour market institutions to an alternative model of labour markets (2014)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2017). From labour market institutions to an alternative model of labour markets. Forum for Social Economics, 46(1), 78-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2014.970567

© 2014 The Association for Social Economics. This post-disciplinary article goes beyond orthodox labour economics and combines insights from the ‘socio-economics of labour markets’ (SELM), and critical realism (CR), to develop a SELMCRperspective, wh... Read More about From labour market institutions to an alternative model of labour markets.

Bhaskar and critical realism (2014)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (2014). Bhaskar and critical realism. In P. Adler, P. Du Gay, G. Morgan, & M. Reed (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organisation Studies: Contemporary Currents (182-219). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Conceptualizing future labour markets (2014)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2014). Conceptualizing future labour markets. Journal of Critical Realism, 13(3), 233-260. https://doi.org/10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000029

© W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014. An enquiry into what future labour markets might look like is, necessarily, an enquiry into what future labour market institutions might look like. Any such enquiry requires a conceptual apparatus (i.e. theory, metathe... Read More about Conceptualizing future labour markets.

Do labour supply and demand curves exist? (2014)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2014). Do labour supply and demand curves exist?. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38(5), 1087-1113. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu003

The objective of this paper is to show that circumstantial and empirical evidence for the existence of labour supply and demand curves is at best inconclusive and at worst casts doubt on their existence. Because virtually all orthodox models of labou... Read More about Do labour supply and demand curves exist?.

From political economy to economics and beyond (2012)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2012). From political economy to economics and beyond. Historical Materialism, 20(3), 61-80. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341258

Ben Fine and Dimitris Milonakis have done political economy a great service by drawing attention to the insights lost in the twists, turns and reductions in the transition from political economy to economics. These two volumes constitute a solid foun... Read More about From political economy to economics and beyond.

Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets (2011)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2011). Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 35(1), 15-38. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beq006

Using insights from the 'socio-economics of labour markets' and building upon critical realist meta-theory, this paper offers the first sketch of a socio-economic model of labour markets as an alternative to the orthodox model. © The Author 2010. Pub... Read More about Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets.

Powers and tendencies re-visited (2011)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2011). Powers and tendencies re-visited. Journal of Critical Realism, 10(1), 80-99. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcr.v10i1.80

Whilst powers and tendencies are amongst the most fundamental concepts of critical realism, there are several problems with these concepts that have been ignored, avoided or glossed. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to tease out these problem... Read More about Powers and tendencies re-visited.

Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction (2010)
Journal Article
Durbin, S., & Fleetwood, S. (2010). Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 29(3), 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610151011028831

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the relationship between the causes of gender inequality in employment and policies designed to eliminate or ameliorate it. When this is brought into focus, some fundamental shortcomings in polic... Read More about Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction.

Explaining the performance of human resource management (2010)
Book
Fleetwood, S., & Hesketh, A. (2010). Explaining the performance of human resource management. Cambridge University Press

Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link (2008)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S., & Hesketh, A. (2008). Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link. Personnel Review, 37(2), 126-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/00483480810850506

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the conceptual underpinnings of the theoretical weaknesses of extant research investigating the HRM-Organizational Performance Link (hereafter HRM-P Link). Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews... Read More about Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link.

HRM-performance research: Under-theorized and lacking explanatory power (2006)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S., & Hesketh, A. (2006). HRM-performance research: Under-theorized and lacking explanatory power. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17(12), 1977-1993. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585190601041026

The search for a measurable link between HR practices and organizational performance is currently preoccupying HR professionals, consultants, government and academics. Empirical research on this human resource management-performance (HRM-P) link is,... Read More about HRM-performance research: Under-theorized and lacking explanatory power.

Beyond measuring the HRM-organizational performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory (2006)
Journal Article
Hesketh, A., & Fleetwood, S. (2006). Beyond measuring the HRM-organizational performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory. Organization, 13(5), 677-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508406067009

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.

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.