Organization and Valuation: Global Perspectives

Friday, 11 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: FSE005 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC17 Sociology of Organization (host committee)

Language: English

Practices and processes of valuation abound in organizations. In traditional forms of organizations like firms, universities, hospitals, or schools, but also in “new” forms like platforms or holacracies, valuation is crucial for selecting members, managing staff, planning projects, observing competitors and clients or customers. Organizations are also frequently objects of valuation: They are included in rankings, targets of moral campaigns, and objects of formal accounting. While the sociology of valuation and organizational sociology have recently clearly recognized the organization-valuation-nexus, most research has focused on local settings in the Global North. This session aims to extend this narrow focus. We invite papers that scrutinize organization and valuation (1) in local settings beyond the centers of the Global North, (2) show how local practices of valuation interact with global structures and processes or transnational fields, or investigate (3) practices of valuation and organizing that are globally distributed or travel among contexts. Besides focusing on formal processes of valuation like accounting or rankings, the papers may also highlight more tacit, bodily, and material practices of valuation like tasting and perception in organized contexts.
Session Organizers:
Christopher DORN, Bielefeld University, Germany, Thorsten PEETZ, University of Bamberg, Germany and Waibel DÉSIRÉE, Universität Luzern, Switzerland
Oral Presentations
Women Artisans and Microentrepreneurs in Peru. the Case of Chinchero, Cusco.
Julianna Paola RAMIREZ LOZANO, Centrum PUCP - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
Valuation Practices Beyond the Global North: A Comparative Study of Organizational Dynamics in Emerging Economies
Sociological Association of Pakistan ., Sociological Association of Pakistan, Pakistan
Connecting Value Regimes: The Role of Brokers in the Transnational Used Clothing Economy
Eva BOSSUYT, The Paris Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris), France
Institutional Investors and Sustainability in Firms: Saying Good Versus Doing Good
Anson AU, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Turning Waste into Wants
Marco HOHMANN, University of Hamburg, Germany
Distributed Papers
Redefining Labour's Role: Claiming a Fair Share of Profits Beyond the Means of Production
Neelima LAKRA, London School of Management Education, United Kingdom