Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2012]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 265 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Translated from the Danish.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.