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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