Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

Lamont, Michèle

doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120022

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“…This resonates with Nahapiet (1988), where the resource allocation formula helped to make values more visible and tangible and prompted explicit consideration of three fundamental organizational dilemmas. More generally, it resonates with the way in which instruments like accounting and performance measurement systems are well suited to rendering visible the multiplicity of criteria of evaluation (Lamont, 2012).…”

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Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of compromising accounts

Chenhall

Hall

Smith

2013

Accounting, Organizations and Society

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In this paper we develop the concept of compromising accounts as a distinctive approach to the analysis of whether and how accounting can facilitate compromise amongst organizational actors. We take the existence of conflicting logics and values as the starting point for our analysis, and directly examine the ways in which the design and operation of accounts can be implicated in compromises between different modes of evaluation and when and how such compromises can be productive or unproductive. In doing so, we draw on Stark's (2009: 27) concept of 'organizing dissonance', where the coming together of multiple evaluative principles has the potential to produce a 'productive friction' that can help the organization to recombine ideas and perspectives in creative and constructive ways. In a field study of a non-government organization, we examine how debates and struggles over the design and operation of a performance measurement system affected the potential for productive debate and compromise between different modes of evaluation. Our study shows that there is much scope for future research to examine how accounts can create sites that bring together (or indeed push apart) organizational actors with different evaluative principles, and the ways in which this 'coming together' can be potentially productive and/or destructive.2

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Section: Concurrent Visibilitymentioning

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Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of compromising accounts

Chenhall

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Smith

2013

Accounting, Organizations and Society

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“…Clearly commensuration is unattainable in these contexts, but these contexts draw attention to the possibility that incommensurability could even be an asset to cultivate and highlight. For example, Lamont (2012) has argued that differential valuation can help sustain heterarchies.…”

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Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited

Ferraro

Etzion

Gehman

2015

Organization Studies

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In this article, we theorize a novel approach to addressing the world’s grand challenges based on the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism and the sociological concept of robust action. Grounded in prior empirical organizational research, we identify three robust strategies that organizations can employ in tackling issues such as climate change and poverty alleviation: participatory architecture, multivocal inscriptions and distributed experimentation. We demonstrate how these strategies operate, the manner in which they are linked, the outcomes they generate, and why they are applicable for resolving grand challenges. We conclude by discussing our contributions to research on robust action and grand challenges, as well as some implications for research on stakeholder theory, institutional theory and theories of valuation

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“…See also Berliner (1994). topic of how value is fabricated and evaluated in different social settings. Two particularly influential works within what Lamont (2012) calls "the sociology of valuation and evaluation" have been carried out by Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) and Karpik (2010), both expanding the classical bourdieusian emphasis of value (as symbolically derived from economical, social, and cultural domains of capital) to embrace what they see as multiple "regimes of worth" (Boltanski and Thévenot) and "regimes of coordination" (Karpik). 7 In stark contrast to Bourdieu, Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) do not embark on the ambitious task of relating their different "regimes" to a single societal whole.…”

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Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation

Nylander

2013

Am J Cult Sociol

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This article examines music auditions of jazz education and the artistic valuation of music performances by gatekeepers working in two prestigious schools. Using the inherent insecurities of the entry-test situation as a site of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper explores the whole chain of valuation needed in order to produce a hierarchical ordinal ranking of the candidates. By drawing attention to the distinction between what is being said and what is being done by the gatekeepers, a structural ambiguity is identified in the selection game: on the one hand, it is dependent on romantic notions of artistic uniqueness (originality, personality, authenticity) and on the other, it relies on the requirements of jurisdiction and equal assessment (numerical grading, standardized repertoire). The artistic doxa of jazz is constituted in opposition to two negative characters, either by framing the candidates as epigones -echoing the standard repertoire too closely -or framing them as heretics, considered as traitors the local interpretation of the standard.

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Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

Cited by 1,033 publications

References 123 publications

Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of compromising accounts

Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of compromising accounts

Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited

Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation

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