Performance is the yardstick by which the quality of individual
and collective human effort is assessed. Everywhere, performance
shapes the lives of people and organizations according to its logic
and demands. The quest for performance has spread to societies
worldwide; it has become of central importance for our perception
of our activities and our understanding of the world. Such
importance calls for reflection within the context of
organizations. First, all important social processes are strongly
affected by organizations. Second, performance holds a commanding
position in organizations.
In Stories of Achievements, Herve Corvellec explains performance
as a matter of telling, recounting, and communicating an
organization's actions or the results of those actions. He
describes how organizations work with the notion of performance and
examines its connections with efficiency and competition. Corvellec
begins with an assessment of management literature, discussing the
various ways different professions define performance. What is
considered to be performance in one profession may be at odds with
its definition in another. The author examines what performance
means in the world of sports, and provides a look at performance
throughout sports history. He then draws parallels between sports
and organizations, detailing similarities and differences between
performance and the notions of competitions, measurement and
hierarchy.
This study covers particular aspects of the notion of
performance--linguistic, semantic, theoretical, logical,
historical, and narrative. Drawing on various methodologies, each
chapter represents a smaller study of how performance is manifested
in a particular context. Together, they provide a general
presentation of how the notion of performance is used in
organizations, where it comes from, and what is meant by
performance in general managerial discourse. Stories of
Achievements will be engrossing reading for management, accounting,
and organization professionals, as well as sociologists interested
in the study of economic organizations.
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