Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to advance a critical realist perspective on performativity and use it to examine how novel conceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have performative effects. Design/methodology/approach: To illustrate how the authors’ critical realist...

Purpose: The authors critique Modell's proposition that critical realism is useful in elucidating and creating possibilities for emancipation. Design/methodology/approach: The authors begin by outlining Modell's conception of enabling structures. If ‘activated’ by reflexive individuals,...

Purpose: This paper explores how neoliberalism restrains the ability of governments to respond to crises through budgetary action. It examines the immediate budgetary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by the Australian government and explores how the conditions created by prior neoliberal...

Purpose: The authors explore the Australian Government's implementation of budgetary measures to manage the social and economic impacts of COVID-19, paying particular attention to how the country's history of inequality has shaped these actions, and the effect inequality may have on outcomes....