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Audit culture : how indicators and rankings are reshaping the world / Cris Shore and Susan Wright
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: Anthropology, culture and societyPublisher: London ; Las Vegas : Pluto Press, 2024Description: xiv, 226 Seiten : Illustrationen, DiagrammeISBN:- 9780745336459
- Auditing
- Ranking and selection (Statistics)
- Public administration
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture
- COMPUTERS / Database Management / General
- COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
- Cultural studies
- Datenerfassung und -analyse
- Digital- und Informationstechnologien: soziale und ethische Aspekte
- Kulturwissenschaften
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- Sociology: work & labour
- Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
- Soziologie und Anthropologie
- Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf
- 306.36
- HF5667
Contents:
Summary: An anthropological account of how rankings, statistics and numbers are reshaping the world we live inPPN: PPN: 1881634736
List of FiguresAbbreviationsAcknowledgements Series PrefacePreface1. Introduction: Audit Culture and the New World (Dis)Order2. Rankings as Populist Project: Governing by Numbers and Hollowing out Democracy3. The Big Four Accountancy Firms and the Evolution of Contemporary Capitalism4. Global Governance through Standards, Seduction and Soft Power5. Metrics, Managerialism and Market Making: Unlocking Value in Healthcare6. Reforming Higher Education: The Kafkaesque Pursuit of World Class Status7. The New Subjects of Audit: Performance Management and Quantified Selves8. Conclusion: Repurposing Audit - Restoring Trust, Accountability and DemocracyBibliographyIndex
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