This article takes the form of a debate between the two authors on the social ontology of
propositional culture. Archer applies the morphogenetic approach, analysing culture as a …

Convincing arguments for using critical realism as an underpinning for theories of IT-
associated organizational change have appeared in the Information Systems literature. A …

Critical realism has attracted increasing attention as an alternative to positivist and
interpretive research for explaining contemporary phenomena. There are now several …

'Social construction'is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and
understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most …

Many scholars continue to accord routine action a central role in social theory and defend
the continuing relevance of Bourdieu's habitus. Simultaneously, most recognize the …

Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas seeks to re-
address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century …

Events happen within the organizational world not by chance but for reasons. It is surely the
task of management research to try to explain why these events occur. This requires us to …

Margaret Archer and Pierre Bourdieu have advanced what seem at first sight to be
incompatible theories of human agency. While Archer places heavy stress on conscious …

In the face of what has been characterised by some as a 'crisis' in curriculum–an apparent
decline of some aspects of curriculum studies combined with the emergence of new types of …

Abstract Superficially, Actor Network Theory (ANT) and critical realism (CR) are radically
opposed research traditions. Written from a realist perspective, this paper asks whether …