Organization and Valuation: Global Perspectives
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.
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