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Herve Corvellec's book is welcome in a time when so much emphasis is put on performance in organisations and societies. His book analyses the idea of performance from a variety of angles, and he effectively, albeit written somewhat as an understatement, shows that performance is a way to tell stories. However, the book is not innocent. Using examples from sports, activity reports, management literature, and performance indicators, Herve Corvellec strongly emphasizes the intertwinement between the social and the technical in the management of organisations and societies. This is a valuable, and highly readable, book recommendable to students of social theory including management, organisation, accounting, and technology. --Jan Mouritsan, professor, Copenhagen Business School

-HervE Corvellec's book is welcome in a time when so much emphasis is put on performance in organisations and societies. His book analyses the idea of performance from a variety of angles, and he effectively, albeit written somewhat as an understatement, shows that performance is a way to tell stories. However, the book is not innocent. Using examples from sports, activity reports, management literature, and performance indicators, HervE Corvellec strongly emphasizes the intertwinement between the social and the technical in the management of organisations and societies. This is a valuable, and highly readable, book recommendable to students of social theory including management, organisation, accounting, and technology.- --Jan Mouritsan, professor, Copenhagen Business School -Corvellec provides an ingenious analysis of how problematic the concept of organizational performance is. He argues persuasively that performance is dependent upon and only understood within the ways we narrativize it. Using narratives of accomplishment from sports as a central example, he shows how managerial story telling shapes what organizational performance is, and how we evaluate it.---Richard J. Boland, Jr., professor, Case Western Reserve University -In this delightful book, HervE Corvellec pushes the study of organizational performance a good distance in the direction of literary and language studies. His theoretical and empirical explorations allow him to present new ways of understanding performance framed by the intriguing problems of interpretation and meaning. An exciting new approach to a topic of universal and enduring interest.---Mary Jo Hatch, professor of organization theory, Cranfield School of Management HervE Corvellec's book is welcome in a time when so much emphasis is put on performance in organisations and societies. His book analyses the idea of performance from a variety of angles, and he effectively, albeit written somewhat as an understatement, shows that performance is a way to tell stories. However, the book is not innocent. Using examples from sports, activity reports, management literature, and performance indicators, HervE Corvellec strongly emphasizes the intertwinement between the social and the technical in the management of organisations and societies. This is a valuable, and highly readable, book recommendable to students of social theory including management, organisation, accounting, and technology. --Jan Mouritsan, professor, Copenhagen Business School Corvellec provides an ingenious analysis of how problematic the concept of organizational performance is. He argues persuasively that performance is dependent upon and only understood within the ways we narrativize it. Using narratives of accomplishment from sports as a central example, he shows how managerial story telling shapes what organizational performance is, and how we evaluate it. --Richard J. Boland, Jr., professor, Case Western Reserve University In this delightful book, HervE Corvellec pushes the study of organizational performance a good distance in the direction of literary and language studies. His theoretical and empirical explorations allow him to present new ways of understanding performance framed by the intriguing problems of interpretation and meaning. An exciting new approach to a topic of universal and enduring interest. --Mary Jo Hatch, professor of organization theory, Cranfield School of Management HervE Corvellec's book is welcome in a time when so much emphasis is put on performance in organisations and societies. His book analyses the idea of performance from a variety of angles, and he effectively, albeit written somewhat as an understatement, shows that performance is a way to tell stories. However, the book is not innocent. Using examples from sports, activity reports, management literature, and performance indicators, HervE Corvellec strongly emphasizes the intertwinement between the social and the technical in the management of organisations and societies. This is a valuable, and highly readable, book recommendable to students of social theory including management, organisation, accounting, and technology. --Jan Mouritsan, professor, Copenhagen Business School In this delightful book, HervE Corvellec pushes the study of organizational performance a good distance in the direction of literary and language studies. His theoretical and empirical explorations allow him to present new ways of understanding performance framed by the intriguing problems of interpretation and meaning. An exciting new approach to a topic of universal and enduring interest. --Mary Jo Hatch, professor of organization theory, Cranfield School of Management Herve Corvellec's book is welcome in a time when so much emphasis is put on performance in organisations and societies. His book analyses the idea of performance from a variety of angles, and he effectively, albeit written somewhat as an understatement, shows that performance is a way to tell stories. However, the book is not innocent. Using examples from sports, activity reports, management literature, and performance indicators, Herve Corvellec strongly emphasizes the intertwinement between the social and the technical in the management of organisations and societies. This is a valuable, and highly readable, book recommendable to students of social theory including management, organisation, accounting, and technology. --Jan Mouritsan, professor, Copenhagen Business School Corvellec provides an ingenious analysis of how problematic the concept of organizational performance is. He argues persuasively that performance is dependent upon and only understood within the ways we narrativize it. Using narratives of accomplishment from sports as a central example, he shows how managerial story telling shapes what organizational performance is, and how we evaluate it. --Richard J. Boland, Jr., professor, Case Western Reserve University In this delightful book, Herve Corvellec pushes the study of organizational performance a good distance in the direction of literary and language studies. His theoretical and empirical explorations allow him to present new ways of understanding performance framed by the intriguing problems of interpretation and meaning. An exciting new approach to a topic of universal and enduring interest. --Mary Jo Hatch, professor of organization theory, Cranfield School of Management

HervE Corvellec's book is welcome in a time when so much emphasis is put on performance in organisations and societies. His book analyses the idea of performance from a variety of angles, and he effectively, albeit written somewhat as an understatement, shows that performance is a way to tell stories. However, the book is not innocent. Using examples from sports, activity reports, management literature, and performance indicators, HervE Corvellec strongly emphasizes the intertwinement between the social and the technical in the management of organisations and societies. This is a valuable, and highly readable, book recommendable to students of social theory including management, organisation, accounting, and technology. --Jan Mouritsan, professor, Copenhagen Business School</p>

HervE Corvellec's book is welcome in a time when so much emphasis is put on performance in organisations and societies. His book analyses the idea of performance from a variety of angles, and he effectively, albeit written somewhat as an understatement, shows that performance is a way to tell stories. However, the book is not innocent. Using examples from sports, activity reports, management literature, and performance indicators, HervE Corvellec strongly emphasizes the intertwinement between the social and the technical in the management of organisations and societies. This is a valuable, and highly readable, book recommendable to students of social theory including management, organisation, accounting, and technology. --Jan Mouritsan, professor, Copenhagen Business School

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