The evaluation society
By: Peter Dahler-Larsen ; translated by Steven Sampson
Publisher: Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804776929
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Organizational sociology; Social aspects; Evaluation
Work titles: Rituelle reflektion
Notes: Translated from the Danish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evaluation wave : from mystery to analysis; title: Organizational understandings : rational, learning, and institutionalized organization; title: Evaluation in the institutionalized organization; title: Modernity and its evaluation imaginary; title: Reflexive modernity; title: Evaluation in reflexive modernity; title: Audit society, neo-rigorism, and evaluation machines; title: The critique of evaluation machines; title: Epilogue : perspectives for evaluation.