Change in Networks – a Critical Realist Interpretation
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چکیده
The main issue of this work-in-progress paper is to address the explanation and understanding of change (and stability) in networks informed by a critical realist position. The aim is twofold. The next section presents a framework drawing heavily on a critical realist interpretation of logistics research (Aastrup & Nedergaard, 2000). Section three discusses a limited number of contributions from the IMP approach dealing with change in industrial networks in relation to the critical realist framework. The aim of this section is not to change the way to anticipate change in networks. Rather, it is a first attempt to see how existing contributions fit into the framework, and whether they are consistent (or rather not inconsistent) with the line of thinking in the framework. The discussion on the contributions is merely a question of how we can understand (parts of) these relations in the ontological framework in the more specific context of industrial networks.
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