The Philosophy of Management Research

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Articles -- 1 Philosophy: an under-laborer serving researchers -- A brief comparison of key philosophical perspectives -- Philosophical under-laboring -- A brief overview -- 2 Explanation: different ways of answering "why?" -- The covering law model -- Mechanismic explanation -- Contrastive explanation -- The generality of explanations -- Atheoretical explanation -- Unexplained empirical regularities -- 3 Assumptions: not something to be assumed away -- Types of assumptions -- Assumptions and explanations