Extending the Foundations and Reach of Design Science: Further Reflections on the Role of Critical Realism
回应Willmott的批评，论证批判实在论与设计科学在管理研究中兼容，能丰富而非削弱人性化工作场所的议程。
In his commentary on our proposal to reframe the relevance of business and management research by combining design science with critical realism (Hodgkinson and Starkey, British Journal of Management , 22 (2011), pp. 355–369), Willmott ( British Journal of Management , 23 (2012), pp. 598–604) commends us for our advocacy of a social science as opposed to professional school agenda, while admonishing us for seeking to underpin the commended design science ethos with critical realism, on the grounds of ontological inconsistency and the risk of diminishing the emancipatory elements of our social usefulness agenda. In reply, we demonstrate how, in highlighting the interplay of multiple generative mechanisms within and between levels of analysis, critical realism is entirely commensurate with the design science approach advocated, and enriches rather than diminishes our overarching agenda to humanize the workplace.