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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"calculative practices"”.
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Hybrid professional identities and ‘calculative practices:’ The case of GPs in the English National Health Service acute care commissioning
… and second, their level of involvement in CCG ‘calculative practices’ (Miller, 1990, 2001). The institutional field studied is acute care, i.e. hospital, commissioning in contemporary England. To achieve its objective, this thesis asks four research questions: 1) ‘How appropriate is it for …
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Opening the black box of the health technology assessment process at NICE
… diversity of concerns to be represented in the calculative practices of clinical efficiency decisions. The empirical site taken is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and its Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process. The HTA process represents many diagnostic areas …
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From the Sustainability Adoption to the Measurement of Social Impact: Interventionist Research in a B2B Organisation
… agenda; ii) to reveal factors that hinder calculative practices from ensuring accountability of technology companies in the healthcare system; and iii) given the restricted direct stakeholder engagement, to design an approach or methodological tool for the impact measurement indicators. The …
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Centres of calculation: a study of accounting and local government in England and Wales, 1800-1995
… as a social, institutional and primarily calculative practice and other practices of management and organization. To understand these practices and relationships fully, their conditions of emergence in particular localised historical settings must be analysed. Accounting is a practice …
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Impact measurement in social enterprises: rationales & current practices in an Australian context
Practices around the choice and implementation of social and/or environmental impact metrics are reflective of how organisational actors interpret sustainability, which in turn shape the organisation. The broad aim of this thesis is to explore the challenges of impact measurement as situated within …
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Kalkulationsarbeit
Die Forschungsarbeit untersucht aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive den individuellen „Umgang“ mit kalkulativen Praktiken und der kalkulativen Praxis in ausgewählten deutschen Konzernen der Metall- und Elektroindustrie. Zur Beschreibung, dessen, was unter „Umgang“ zu verstehen ist, wird …