Management Tools

A Social Sciences Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID6537546
AuthorsEve Chiapello (0000-0002-3323-9961, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique), Ve Chiapello, Patrick Gilbert (0000-0002-3958-4969)
Year2019
Pages311
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueManagement Tools (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108553858
OpenAlexW2964750725
Open LibraryOL28724840M, OL34740956M
ISBN9781108428958, 9781108553858
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited304

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

Economics · Knowledge management · Management · Management control system · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Realm · Sociology · Accounting and Organizational Management · Computer Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Policy and Administration Research

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