This paper focuses on a particular area of management, human resource management. The paper explores these three concepts and the relationship between them. The analysis reveals that most of the existing research is framed within a mechanistic and static world view. Such a view limits an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges in adding a critical realist epistemological perspective to a positivist approach in research on listed companies by equity researchers and other financial services professionals. Design/methodology/approach – A purposive...