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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.