Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press,
[2012]
x, 265 pages ;
24 cm
Translated from the Danish.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The evaluation wave : from mystery to analysis -- Organizational understandings : rational, learning, and institutionalized organization -- Modernity and its "evaluation imaginary" -- Evaluation in the institutionalized organization -- Modernity and its evaluation imaginary -- Reflexive modernity -- Evaluation in reflexive modernity -- Audit society, neo-rigorism, and evaluation machines -- The critique of evaluation machines -- Epilogue : perspectives for evaluation.