Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide

Foreword 1. Critical Realism as an Empirical Project: A Beginner s Guide 2. Critical Realism, Research Techniques, and Research Designs 3. Employing a Form of Critical Realist Discourse Analysis for Identity Research: An Example from Women s Talk of Motherhood, Childcare and Employment 4. Researching Identity: a Critical Realist Approach 5. Critical Realism and Grounded Theory 6. Critical Realism and Interviewing Subjects 7. Critical Realism and Ethnography 8. Critical Realism and the Organizational Case Study: A Guide to Discovering Institutional Mechanisms 9. Comparing Cases 10. Critical Realism and International Comparative Research 11. Pulling the Levers of Agency: Implementing Critical Realist Action Research 12. History and Documents in Critical Realism 13. Critical Realism and Mixed Methods Research: Combining the Extensive and Intensive at Multiple Levels 14. Realist Synthesis 15. Probability and Models 16. An Appraisal of the Contribution of Critical Realism to Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology: Is Dialectics the Way Forward? 17.