Sub-theme 52: [hybrid] Perfectly Imperfect Organizing: The Beauty of Incomplete Calculative Practices
Convenors:
Elena Giovannoni, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Jan Mouritsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Paolo Quattrone, Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, EA.5.034
Algorithmic Structures and Evasive Technologies
Chair: Paolo Quattrone
Jannis Kallinikos and Cristina Alaimo
Beyond surveillance: Technologies of difference and value creation
Elise Berlinski, Martin Kornberger and Jan Mouritsen
Digital framing: Links, loops, labyrinths and the construction of a conspiratorial social movement
Giulia Cappellaro and Angela Aristidou
(Im)perfect
implementation of AI technologies in a hospital organizational setting: The
process of anticipatory governance and the role of professionals
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, EA.5.034
Imperfect Ac-counting
Chair: Martin Kornberger
Fabrizio Granà, Cristiano Busco and Simone Budini
Accounting for Utopia: Unpacking the moral dimension of calculative practices
Tommaso Palermo
Auditing risk culture
Rita Samiolo, Crawford Spence and Dorothy Toh
Professional vision and the data driven audit
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Imperfect Spaces - Room: EA.5.034
Chair: Elena Giovannoni
David Crvelin
On cracks, niches and margins: Spatial incompleteness and imperfect accounting
Andreas Ulfsten
Concealed pathways: How the visibility of links in a system of inscriptions is influenced
Nicolas Berland
Points of rupture and lines of flight: Place and space in an assemblage of control
Parallel Stream B: Imperfect Infrastructures - Room: AD.0.095 Sitzungssaal 5
Chair: Jan Mouritsen
Annette M. Quayle
Accounting, climate change and the construction of perfectly imperfect performance objects
Jacob Reilley, Jaromir Junne and Lukas Löhlein
Between hope and disappointment: exploring actors’ unstable engagements with accounting
Chris J. Ford and Katy J. Mason
Incomplete evaluative practice and the infrastructuring of a new pro-environmental platform
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Data Scientists and Imperfect Calculations - Room: EA.5.034
Chair: Jan Mouritsen
Mayur Joshi and Ning Su
Custodians of rationality: Data scientists, AI, and decision-making in bureaucratic organizations
Lise Justesen and Ursula Plesner
Keeping invisible work in sight: Imperfect business case calculations, partial accounts, and the values of stupid robots
Mario Alberto Sosa Hidalgo, Ella W. Hafermalz and Marleen Huysman
Building imperfect bridges: How data scientists cope with the incompleteness of their algorithms
Parallel Stream B: Models and Simulation of the Unknown - Room: AD.0.095 Sitzungssaal 5
Chair: Paolo Quattrone
Johnny O'Rourke
Calculating the immesurable: A study into the role of scenarios for thinking the unthinkable
Eugenia Cacciatori, Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Konstantinos Chalkias
Simulations between knowledge and ignorance: Catastrophe models in terrorism insurance
Matthias Taeger
Absent climate futures – The NGFS reference scenarios as translated climate futures
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, EA.5.034
Calculative (In)Visibilities
Chair: Elena Giovannoni
Régis Martineau and Yves Habran
To be or not to be on the list: Producing (in)visibility through the list-making process
Silvana Revellino and Jan Mouritsen
Accounting for creativity and the valorisation of ideas: The role of the ‘IDEAS BROKER’ in making creativity visible, distributable
and valuable
Rachelle Belinga and Emma Sjöström
Unpacking ESG integration: The collective construction of calculative expertise across financial actors
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, EA.5.034
Calculative Practices in the Making of Markets
Chair: Jan Mouritsen
Tom Duterme
“Below, but close to”: The pragmatic origins of incomplete Central Banks’ targets
Ruowen Xu, Alexandru Preda and Julie Valk
Tools
of the market: Technological assemblages and the uncertainties of calculation
in the cryptoeconomy
Daniel Beunza and Yuval Millo
Blended automation: Integrating algorithms on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, EA.5.034
Incomplete Quantifications
Chair: Paolo Quattrone
Nathalie Iloga Balep, Christian Huber and Vera Linke
All lights on red – Experimenting with evaluative principles in the negotiation of performance measurement indicators for
prisons
Julie Gauneau and Caroline Lambert
Organizing around and through the presence-absence of social impact measures of diversity in a police department
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
The quantified scholar: How research evaluations transformed the British Social Sciences