Steve Fleetwood
Professor of ER and HRM at Bristol Business School
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Bristol Business School
I live, with my wife Anne, on the beautiful Atlantic Island of Madeira where we enjoy walking on the `levadas´- water channels (and paths) carved into the mountain side Area of expertise Meta-theory (philosophy and ontology of social science) with emphasis upon work, organisation & management; socio-economics of labour markets, work and employment; human resource management; organisation theory; employment relations . Publications
Fleetwood, S. (2017) Ontology and the Current Economic Crisis. In: Urs, L. and Dimitri, M., eds. (2017) Critical Realism meets kritische Sozialtheorie: Ontologie, Erklärung und Kritik in den Sozialwissenschaften. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 167-193. ISBN 9783837627251 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/34440 ' Brannan, M., Fleetwood, S., Mahoney, J. and Vincent, S. (2017) Critical essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative. Human Relations, 70 (1). pp. 11-39. ISSN 00187267 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/30816 ' Fleetwood, S., Brannan, M., O´Mahoney, J. and Vincent, S. (2017) Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative. Human Relations, 70 (1). pp. 11-39. ISSN 0018-7267 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/30005 ' Fleetwood, S. (2017) The critical realist conception of open and closed systems. Journal of Economic Methodology, 24 (1). pp. 41-68. ISSN 1350-178X Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/29915 ' Fleetwood, S. (2017) From labour market institutions to an alternative model of labour markets. Forum for Social Economics, 46. pp. 78-103. ISSN 0736-0932 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26529 ' Fleetwood, S. (2016) Reflections upon neoclassical labour economics. In: Morgan, J., ed. (2016) What is Neoclassical Economics? Debating the Origins, Meaning and Significance. London: Routledge, pp. 273-311. ISBN 9781138962071 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/29912 ' Fleetwood, S. (2016) (Mis)understanding labour markets. In: Murray, J., ed. (2016) Labor Markets: Analysis, Regulation and Outcomes. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 1-85. ISBN 9781634849425 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/29910 ' Fleetwood, S. (2015) Why study HRM? In: Vaidya, K., ed. (2015) Human Resource Management for the Curious: Why Study Human Resource Management? The Curious Academic Publishing. ISBN 9781925128741 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26108 ' Fleetwood, S. (2014) Bhaskar and critical realism. In: Adler, P., Du Gay, P., Morgan, G. and Reed, M., eds. (2014) Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organisation Studies: Contemporary Currents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 182-219. ISBN 9780199671083 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26526 ' Fleetwood, S. (2014) Do labour supply and demand curves exist? Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38 (5). pp. 1-27. ISSN 0309-166X Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26528 ' Fleetwood, S. (2014) Conceptualising future labour markets. Journal of Critical Realism, 13 (3). pp. 233-260. ISSN 1476-7430 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26527 ' Fleetwood, S. (2014) Gender inequality in work. In: de Abreu, M. Z. G. and Fleetwood, S., eds. (2014) Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443856799 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23291 ' Fleetwood, S. and Abreu, M. Z. G. D. (2014) Introduction. In: Fleetwood, S. and Abreau, M. Z., eds. (2014) Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9871443856799 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/29908 ' Fleetwood, S. (2014) Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andy Brown. Work, Employment & Society, 28 (1). pp. 124-138. ISSN 0950-0170 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23292 ' Fleetwood, S. (2012) From "Political economy to economics" and beyond. Historical Materialism, 20 (3). pp. 61-80. ISSN 1465-4466 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/18479 ' Fleetwood, S. (2011) Powers and tendencies re-visited. Journal of Critical Realism, 10 (1). pp. 80-99. ISSN 1476-7430 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/18480 ' Fleetwood, S. (2011) Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy. Capital & Class, 36 (2). pp. 235-262. ISSN 0309-8168 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15964 ' Fleetwood, S. (2011) Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 35 (1). pp. 15-38. ISSN 0309-166X Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/13750 ' Durbin, S. and Fleetwood, S. (2010) Gendered inequality in employment: Editors introduction. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international journal, 29 (3). pp. 221-238. ISSN 2040-7149 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15966 ' Fleetwood, S. and Hesketh, A. (2010) Explaining the performance of human resource management. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521875998 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/13744 ' Durbin, S. and Fleetwood, S. (2010) Gender inequality in employment: Editor's introduction. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 29 (3). pp. 221-238. ISSN 2040-7149 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12532 ' Fleetwood, S. (2009) Critical realism in economics. In: Milonakis, D., ed. (2009) From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences. Routledge. ISBN 9780415423236 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15869 ' Fleetwood, S. (2009) The ontology of things, powers and properties. Journal of Critical Realism, 8 (3). pp. 343-366. ISSN 1476-7430 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15967 ' Fleetwood, S. (2008) Institutions and social structures. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38 (3). pp. 241-265. ISSN 0021-8308 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15968 ' Fleetwood, S. (2008) Workers and their alter-ego as consumers. Capital & Class, 32 (1). pp. 31-47. ISSN 0309-8168 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15970 ' Fleetwood, S. (2008) Structure, institution, agency, habit and reflexive deliberation. Journal of Institutional Economics, 4 (2). pp. 183-203. ISSN 1744-1374 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15969 ' Fleetwood, S. and Hesketh, A. (2008) Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-performance link. Personnel Review, 37 (2). pp. 126-144. ISSN 0048-3486 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/13749 ' Fleetwood, S. (2008) Working Paper 12. A trans-disciplinary (proto) model of labour markets. Working Paper. University of the West of England, Bristol. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/7493 ' Fleetwood, S. (2008) Working Paper 9. Insitutions and social structures: some clarifications. Working Paper. University of the West of England, Bristol. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/7492 ' Fleetwood, S. (2008) Working Paper 8. Where do organisations end and labour markets begin? Working Paper. University of the West of England, Bristol. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/7490 ' Fleetwood, S. (2007) Why neoclassical economics explains nothing at all. In: Fullbrook, E., ed. (2007) Real world economics: A post autistic economics reader. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781843312369 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16276 ' Fleetwood, S. (2007) Searching for the human in empirical research on the human resource - management link. In: Bolton, S. and Houlihan, M., eds. (2007) Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management: Theory, Practice and Workplace Contexts. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230019355 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16208 ' Fleetwood, S. (2007) Re-thinking work-life balance: Editors introduction. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18 (3). pp. 351-359. ISSN 0958-5192 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15973 ' Fleetwood, S. (2007) Austrian economics and the analysis of labour markets. Review of Austrian Economics, 20 (4). pp. 247-267. ISSN 0889-3047 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15972 ' Fleetwood, S. (2007) Why work-life balance now? International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18 (3). pp. 387-400. ISSN 0958-5192 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15971 ' Fleetwood, S. and Hesketh, A. (2006) HRM-Performance research: under-theorized and lacking explanatory power. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17 (12). pp. 1977-1993. ISSN 0958-5192 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6389 ' Hesketh, A. and Fleetwood, S. (2006) Beyond measuring the HRM-organizational performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory. Organization, 13 (5). pp. 677-699. ISSN 1350-5084 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6387 ' Fleetwood, S. (2006) Themes and issues: Rejoinder to Sheila Dow and Paul Downward. Journal of Critical Realism, 5 (1). pp. 169-182. ISSN 1476-7430 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15979 ' Fleetwood, S. (2006) Themes and issues: Reply to Shelia Dow and Paul Downward. Journal of Critical Realism, 5 (1). pp. 158-165. ISSN 1476-7430 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15978 ' Fleetwood, S. (2006) Gender at critical realism conferences. Journal of Critical Realism, 5 (1). pp. 61-91. ISSN 1476-7430 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15977 ' Fleetwood, S. (2006) Re-thinking labour markets: A critical realist-socioeconomic perspective. Capital & Class, 30 (2). pp. 59-89. ISSN 0309-8168 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15976 ' Fleetwood, S. and Hesketh, A. (2006) The case of research on the human resource management-organisational performance link. Journal of Critical Realism, 5 (2). pp. 228-250. ISSN 1476-7430 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15975 ' Hesketh, A. and Fleetwood, S. (2006) Beyond measuring the human resources management-organizational performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory. Organization, 13 (5). pp. 677-699. ISSN 1350-5084 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15974 ' Fleetwood, S. (2005) The ontology of organisation and management studies: A critical realist approach. Organization, 12 (2). pp. 197-222. ISSN 1350-5084 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6386 ' Fleetwood, S. (2005) A critical realist reply to Walters and Young. Review of Political Economy, 17 (4). pp. 587-600. ISSN 0953-8259 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15980 ' Fleetwood, S. and Ackroyd, S. (2004) Editors introduction: Critical realist applications in organisation and management studies. In: Fleetwood, S. and Ackroyd, S., eds. (2004) Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415345101 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16279 ' Fleetwood, S. (2004) The ontology of organisation and management studies. In: Ackroyd, S. and Fleetwood, S., eds. (2004) Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415345101 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16278 ' Fleetwood, S., Brown, A. and Roberts, J. (2002) The marriage of critical realism and marxism: Happy, unhappy or on the rocks? In: Brown, A., Fleetwood, S. and Roberts, J., eds. (2002) Critical Realism and Marxism. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415250139 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16280 ' Fleetwood, S. (2002) Why neoclasical economics explains nothing at all. Post-autistic economics review, 17. ISSN 1755-9472 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16277 ' Fleetwood, S. (2002) Boylan and O'Gorman's causal holism: A critical realist evaluation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26 (1). pp. 27-45. ISSN 0309-166X Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6388 ' Fleetwood, S. (2001) What kind of theory is Marx's labour theory of value? A critical realist inquiry. In: Brown, A., Fleetwood, S. and Roberts, J., eds. (2001) Critical Realism and Marxism. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415250139 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16281 ' Fleetwood, S. (2001) The continuing relevance of the communist manifesto. Critique, 30 (1). pp. 211-220. ISSN 0301-7605 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15985 ' Fleetwood, S. (2001) What kind of theory is Marx's labour theory of value? A critical realist inquiry. Capital & Class, 25 (1). pp. 41-77. ISSN 0309-8168 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15984 ' Fleetwood, S. (2001) Conceptualising unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist analysis. Review of Social Economy, 59 (1). pp. 45-69. ISSN 0034-6764 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15983 ' Fleetwood, S. (2001) Causal laws, functional relations and tendencies. Review of Political Economy, 13 (2). pp. 201-220. ISSN 0953-8259 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15981 ' Fleetwood, S. and Ackroyd, S. (2000) Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies. In: Ackroyd, S. and Fleetwood, S., eds. (2000) Realist Perspectives on Organisation and Management. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415242745 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16282 ' Fleetwood, S. (1999) Clarifying Marx’s theory of money. In: Smithin, J., ed. (1999) What Is Money? London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415407076 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16283 ' Fleetwood, S. (1999) The inadequacy of mainstream theories of trade unions. Labour, 21 (6). pp. 445-480. ISSN 1121-7081 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15986 ' Fleetwood, S. (1997) Hayek III: The necessity Of social rules of conduct. In: Frowen, S., ed. (1997) Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher. A Critical Retrospect. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333600900 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16285 ' Fleetwood, S. (1997) Critical realism, Marx and Hayek. In: Keizer, W., Tieban, B. and Van Zijp, R., eds. (1997) Austrian Economics in Debate. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415140546 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16284 ' Fleetwood, S. (1997) Situating critical realism in economics. Ekonomia, 1 (2). pp. 1-8. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15989 ' Fleetwood, S. (1997) Aristotle in the 21st Century. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 21 (6). pp. 729-744. ISSN 0309-166X Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15987 ' Fleetwood, S. (1996) Order without equilibrium: A critical realist interpretation of Hayek's notion of spontaneous order. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 20 (6). pp. 729-747. ISSN 0309-166X Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15990 '
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