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A definition of habit for socio-economics (2021)
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Fleetwood, S. (2021). A definition of habit for socio-economics. Review of Social Economy, 79(2), 131-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2019.1630668

The paper argues that it is a mistake to define habit as behaviour or action; as a regular conjunction of actions; as a stock; as a form of automaticity (although habit is acquired and activated automatically); as a tendency, propensity or dispositio... Read More about A definition of habit for socio-economics.

Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative (2016)
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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)
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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.

From labour market institutions to an alternative model of labour markets (2014)
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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.

Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown (2014)
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Fleetwood, S. (2014). Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown. Work, Employment and Society, 28(1), 124-138. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017013501955

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.

Conceptualizing future labour markets (2014)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy (2012)
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Fleetwood, S. (2012). Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy. Capital and Class, 36(2), 235-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816812437921

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.

Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets (2011)
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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.

Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction (2010)
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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.

Institutions and social structures (2008)
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Fleetwood, S. (2008). Institutions and social structures. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(3), 241-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00370.x

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.

Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link (2008)
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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.

Workers and their alter egos as consumers (2008)
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Fleetwood, S. (2008). Workers and their alter egos as consumers. Capital and Class, 32(1), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680809400103

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.

Austrian economics and the analysis of labor markets (2007)
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Fleetwood, S. (2007). Austrian economics and the analysis of labor markets. Review of Austrian Economics, 20(4), 247-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-006-0009-6

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.