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Management Tools : A Social Sciences Perspective

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  • Eve Chiapello

    (EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

  • Patrick Gilbert

    (IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School)

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No organization is immune from the influence of management tools. Such tools as norms, indicators, ranking, evaluation grids and management control systems have moved outside the managerial and consultancy realm within which they were first developed to reach public administrations and policy-makers, as well as a range of other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Taking management tools out of the practical and utilitarian contexts to which they are often consigned and approaching them from a social analytical perspective, this book gives primacy to these everyday objects that constitute the background of organizational life and remain too often unquestioned. Bringing together developing streams of research from anthropology, political science, social psychology, sociology, accounting, organisation theory and management, Ève Chiapello and Patrick Gilbert offer an unprecedented theoretical synthesis that will help managers, scholars and policy-makers to unpack the functional and dysfunctional roles and effects of management tools within and across organizations.

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  • Eve Chiapello & Patrick Gilbert, 2019. "Management Tools : A Social Sciences Perspective," Post-Print hal-02530197, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02530197
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    1. Christian Walter, 2020. "Sustainable Financial Risk Modelling Fitting the SDGs: Some Reflections," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-28, September.
    2. Gilbert, Patrick & Laporte, Marie-Eve, 2022. "War and peace in hospitals: Humans, objects and paradoxes," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 253-263.
    3. Baud, Céline & Lallemand-Stempak, Nathalie, 2024. "Quantitative technologies and reflexivity: The role of tools and their layouts in the case of credit risk management," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
    4. Nabila Iken & Franck Aggeri & Stéphane Morel, 2020. "How to lead a sustainability transition at the company level? An approach based on management tools performativity [Comment mener une transition soutenable au niveau de l'entreprise ? Une approche ," Post-Print halshs-02903500, HAL.

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