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Governing Value(s) and Organizing through Standards Part III
Governing Value(s) and Organizing through Standards Part III
Abstract Submissions Closed
Sunday, 28 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC17 Sociology of Organization (host committee)
Language: French, Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
This session targets papers that focus on the intersections between valuation and standardization. While standards have been acknowledged as a fundamental form of organizing, its interrelation with value(s) is empirically underexamined and undertheorized. In the context of natural resources, standards are particularly mobilized to account for abstract values, such as biodiversity, health, equality, sustainability or transparency. At the same time, how these natural resources are ‘valued’ and codified into hierarchies of value within standards with consequences for the use of standards to organize sectors, industries, value chains, built environments and nature. Against this backdrop we invite contributions that examine the role of standards in governing food, feed, fuel, fiber, timber or minerals in diverse organizational contexts around the world. Conversely, the panel seeks contributions that explore how value(s) are mobilized as a principle of organizing production, farming, extraction, or conservation. “What value(s) do standards render visible and which ones are made invisible?” How, and with what, consequences do standards participate in the construction of natural resources’ value? Or how do values shape the development, implementation, and diffusion of specific standards?
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