Managing by Ambiguity: An Archaeology of the Social in the Absence of Management Accounting

Munro, Rolland

doi:10.1006/cpac.1995.1042

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“…This appeal derives from the perception of visibility created by numbers, resulting in the notion that facility with numbers leads to the exercise of control (Broadbent and Laughlin, 1994;Carnegie and Napier, 1996;Funnell, 1998). Thus modes of control can be constructed that are geared to specific activities and resources within organisations (Hopwood, 1983;Jönsson, 1996;Munro, 1995). Thus, the manager who desires to exercise control by making responsible and justifiable operational decisions finds that numbers provide an appealing tool.…”

Section: Numbers and The Financial Sectormentioning

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Risk management versus operational action: Basel II in a Swedish context

Wahlström

2009

Management Accounting Research

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Section: Numbers and The Financial Sectormentioning

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Risk management versus operational action: Basel II in a Swedish context

Wahlström

2009

Management Accounting Research

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“…But we have also seen how genetic counselling entails a world of organisation through which genetic counselling emerges as a process of 'becoming informed. ' The clinic in dysmorphology thus puts into play a way of managing reproduction by ambiguity [19] that excites and elicits parents' need to choose. But the genetic clinic also reconstitutes medicine as a site of " biosociality": a system of knowledge that is also an institution at the heart of how we conceptualise ourselves.…”

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Becoming In-formed: Genetic Counselling, Ambiguity and Choice

Latimer

2007

Health Care Anal

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The paper presents findings from an ethnography of dysmorphology, a specialism in genetic medicine, to explore genetic counselling as a process through which parents 'become informed.' Current professional and policy debate over the use of genetic technology in medicine emphasises the need for informed choice making, and for genetic services that provide parents with what is referred to as 'non-directive genetic counselling.' In the paper the process of becoming informed is shown to be very specific and to have its own effects. Specifically, genetics is performed in dysmorphology as a space of ambiguity and uncertainty. In addition, parents are engaged by the clinic as participants in the very processes through which their child, and perhaps their family, are clinically classified. The paper examines the effects of parents' immersion in this clinical space of deferral to suggest how the need for reproductive choice, and calculation, is predicated upon clinical processes that shift parents between the experience of definition and uncertainty. The paper thus troubles simple stories about autonomous and informed choice, particularly reproductive choice, as icons of contemporary versions of what it is to be fully human.

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“…For us also the technically or economically rational is symbolic; that is to say, infested with meaning (Zucker 1977). In organizations there is no purely economic or technical sphere that is somehow exempt from the symbolic (Friedland and Alford 1991;Munro 1995;Powell 1991). Based on these considerations, we operationalize taken-for-grantedness at the organizational level as the continuous exercise of an evaluative practice, which may involve talk in the course of it, in the absence of talk about the practice (in analogy to Green's definition of taken-for-grantedness at the organizational field level, cf.…”

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They’re Natural and Everywhere: How Evaluative Practices Permeate the Organization

Maier

Brandl

2008

Bus Res

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How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the understanding of possible states of evaluative practices within organizations and the processes through which organizations become permeated by evaluative practices. Our conceptual model suggests that once evaluative practices have gained a foothold in an organization, they tend to be applied to an increasing number of organizational problems and become taken for granted.

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Managing by Ambiguity: An Archaeology of the Social in the Absence of Management Accounting

Cited by 54 publications

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Risk management versus operational action: Basel II in a Swedish context

Risk management versus operational action: Basel II in a Swedish context

Becoming In-formed: Genetic Counselling, Ambiguity and Choice

They’re Natural and Everywhere: How Evaluative Practices Permeate the Organization

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