Peter Clark is Professor of Organisational Management at the University of Birmingham Business School.

Deserves serious attention...[Clark] has done a great service to his readers by immersing himself in the seemingly impenetrable literature of the critical realists, and summarising what he sees as its implications...An invaluable guide to buisness historians. - Michael Rowlinson, Business History

• Part 1 New political economy; Chapter 1 Two themes, three disciplines and five perspectives; Chapter 2 From modernism to neo-modern political economy; Chapter 3 Organisation theory; Chapter 4 Structuration, domain theory and the realist turn; Chapter 5 Organisation economics and economic sociology; Part 2 Competition between contexts; Chapter 6 Long-term political economy; Chapter 7 National innovation-design systems; Chapter 8 Nations; Chapter 9 American exceptionalism; Chapter 10 Sectoral clusters and competition between contexts; Part 3 Firms; Chapter 11 Resource-based strategic analysis; Chapter 12 Contingent recurrent action patterns and repertoires; Chapter 13 Knowledges; Chapter 14 Morphogenesis/stasis; Part 4 Zones of manoeuvre; Chapter 15 Organisational management and zones of manoeuvre;

Peter Clark is Professor of Organisational Management at the University of Birmingham Business School.

Deserves serious attention...[Clark] has done a great service to his readers by immersing himself in the seemingly impenetrable literature of the critical realists, and summarising what he sees as its implications...An invaluable guide to buisness historians. - Michael Rowlinson, Business History

• Part 1 New political economy; Chapter 1 Two themes, three disciplines and five perspectives; Chapter 2 From modernism to neo-modern political economy; Chapter 3 Organisation theory; Chapter 4 Structuration, domain theory and the realist turn; Chapter 5 Organisation economics and economic sociology; Part 2 Competition between contexts; Chapter 6 Long-term political economy; Chapter 7 National innovation-design systems; Chapter 8 Nations; Chapter 9 American exceptionalism; Chapter 10 Sectoral clusters and competition between contexts; Part 3 Firms; Chapter 11 Resource-based strategic analysis; Chapter 12 Contingent recurrent action patterns and repertoires; Chapter 13 Knowledges; Chapter 14 Morphogenesis/stasis; Part 4 Zones of manoeuvre; Chapter 15 Organisational management and zones of manoeuvre;

Peter Clark is Professor of Organisational Management at the University of Birmingham Business School.

Deserves serious attention...[Clark] has done a great service to his readers by immersing himself in the seemingly impenetrable literature of the critical realists, and summarising what he sees as its implications...An invaluable guide to buisness historians. - Michael Rowlinson, Business History

• Part 1 New political economy; Chapter 1 Two themes, three disciplines and five perspectives; Chapter 2 From modernism to neo-modern political economy; Chapter 3 Organisation theory; Chapter 4 Structuration, domain theory and the realist turn; Chapter 5 Organisation economics and economic sociology; Part 2 Competition between contexts; Chapter 6 Long-term political economy; Chapter 7 National innovation-design systems; Chapter 8 Nations; Chapter 9 American exceptionalism; Chapter 10 Sectoral clusters and competition between contexts; Part 3 Firms; Chapter 11 Resource-based strategic analysis; Chapter 12 Contingent recurrent action patterns and repertoires; Chapter 13 Knowledges; Chapter 14 Morphogenesis/stasis; Part 4 Zones of manoeuvre; Chapter 15 Organisational management and zones of manoeuvre;