Exploring plato's cave: Critical realism in the study of organization and management

The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 68-78

  Reed, Michael I ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781849200394.n11     Document Type: Chapter

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