Accounting in Identity Regulation: Producing the Appropriate Worker
研究揭示会计测量如何与话语资源共同作用，通过提供持久性、清晰性、透明性和可比性来修订员工身份，从而塑造合格员工。
It is acknowledged that identity regulation in organizations relies on discursive resources. This study moves beyond discourse – illustrating how discourse and accounting measurements are mobilized together in revising identity. Measurement produces persistence, clarity, transparency and comparability, as well as direction: Accounting’s quantitative knowledge ‘amplifies’ discourse. We explain the Great Alliance between words and numbers in a case study addressing events in an organization’s transformation. This extends our understanding of what takes place on the interface between identity and accounting.