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The critical realist conception of open and closed systems

Steve FleetwoodDepartment of HRM, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 41-68 | Received 12 Mar 2016, Accepted 25 Jul 2016, Published online: 10 Aug 2016

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