Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power

by Guy Redden

Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power is the first book to interrogate the organizational turn towards performance metrics critically. Performance measurement is used to evaluate a diverse range of activities throughout the private, public and non-governmental sectors. But in an increasingly data driven world, what does it really mean to measure 'performance'?

Taking a sociology of quantification perspective,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526461854
• ISBN13: 9781526461858
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.4"