Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism
A Practical Guide
Edited by Paul K. Edwards, Joe O'Mahoney, and Steve Vincent
Author Information
Paul K. Edwards, Professor of Employment Relations, University of Birmingham,Joe O'Mahoney, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University,Steve Vincent, Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Newcastle
Paul Edwards has been Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Birmingham since 2011; he was previously at Warwick University, where he was Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit. He has published widely on work and employment, including The Politics of Working Life (with Judy Wajcman; OUP, 2005). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and is editor-in-chief of Human Relations.
Joe O'Mahoney is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and was previously Head of Business Analysis at Three, a senior strategy consultant and the founder of StayMobile Technology LLP. He has published widely on the consulting industry, and more recently on critical realism, in Work, Employment and Society, Organisation Studies, Organisation, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Business Ethics.
Steve Vincent is Professor of Human Resource Management at Newcastle University since 2012. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Leeds. He has published widely in books and journals, including articles in Human Relations; Journal of Management Studies; Work, Employment and Society; Public Administration, and New Technology, Work and Employment. He has also been a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society journal.
Contributors:
Stephen Ackroyd, Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University Business School.
Stephen Bach, Professor of Employment Relations, King's College, University of London.
Professor Roy Bhaskar, World Scholar, the Institute of Education, University of London.
Dr Andrew Brown, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.
Paul Edwards, Professor of Employment Relations, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham.
Tony Elger, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.
Dr Mark Gatenby, Lecturer in Organization Studies, Southampton Management School, University of Southampton.
Dr Joanne Greenhalgh, Principal Research Fellow, the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds.
Dr Scott Hurrell, Lecturer in Work and Employment Studies, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling.
Jan Karlsson, Professor in the Arbetsvetenskap Group, Karlstad University.
Dr Steve Kempster, Director of Leadership Development, Lancaster University Business School.
Ian Kessler, Professor of International Human Resource Management, King's College, University of London.
Abigail Marks, Professor of Work and Wellbeing, the School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University.
Dr Joe O'Mahoney, Lecturer in Organizational Studies, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.
Alistair Mutch, Professor of Information and Learning, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
Ken Parry, Professor of Leadership, Bond University, Australia.
Monder Ram, Professor of Small Business and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), Leicester Business School, de Montfort University.
Dr Chris Rees, Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Dr Sarah Riley, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Aberystwyth University.
Dr John Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications, the School of Social Sciences, Brunel University.
Dr Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Reader in International Management, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey.
Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Continuing Studies, University of Portsmouth.
Chris Smith, Professor of Organization Studies in the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Steve Vincent, Professor of Human Resource Management, Newcastle University Business School, UK.
Dr Robert Wapshott, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, the School of Management, University of Sheffield.
Professor Malcolm Williams, Director of the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.