Bhaskar (1975) initially proposed CR for natural sciences arguing for deeper explanation beyond statistical generalization espoused by the positivist philosophy. Later, he extended it to social sciences (Bhaskar, 1989) arguing for the explanation to move beyond the constructivist accounts of the phenomenon. The critical realist paradigm is ‘realist’ in the sense that it assumes that an external reality – both social and physical – exists irrespective of our acknowledgement or interpretation (Johnson & Duberley, 2000). For a critical realist, physical reality (e.g. flow of liquid in a pipeline), or a social reality (e.g. knowledge flows in an organization) exists irrespective of our understanding of it. The qualifier ‘critical’ denotes that our claims about reality are to be accepted with the assumption that there are significant limitations in terms of the objectivity of our knowledge (Mingers, 2014). At the same time, truth claim in CR is more than the result of social construction. For a critical realist, knowledge generation entails both the engagement with an independent reality and ongoing interpretation of it (Johnson & Duberley, 2000). In other words, social construction process is always bound by an external reality (Sayer, 2010) which exists independently.