The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalised or displaced in the field of management and...

The financial crisis has fuelled a heated debate about the responsibility of financial economists. Critics such as Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller or David Colander argue that financial economists have developed useless or even harmful theories. This is an important debate, but it suffers from the...