Critical realism

Alistair Mutch

Chapter 1.6 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 26-28 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Critical realism is a philosophical tradition particularly associated with the British philosopher Roy Bhaskar. In its role as ‘conceptual underlabourer’, it has been deployed by a range of thinkers with some relevance for strategy as practice, such as Tony Lawson (2019) in economics and Andrew Sayer (2010) in political science. However, it is the social theorist and sociologist Margaret Archer whose work has been most drawn on in management and organisation studies, and so her potential contributions form the largest part of this entry. Her focus on the conditioning role of structure and culture on activity provides a way of setting practices, such as those explored in Strategy as Practice, in a wider context.

Keywords: Critical realism; Roy Bhaskar; Margaret Archer; Ontological boldness; Epistemological relativism; Morphogenetic framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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