Colonising metrics create new mentalities and incentives inside organisations, not just reporting burdens

Evidence

Colonisation is when ”the values and practices which make auditing possible penetrate deep into the core of organizational operations, not just in terms of requiring energy and resources to conform to new reporting demands but in the creation over time of new mentalities, new incentives and perception of significance” (1997: 97). — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 19

Categorization

• DEFINE: Quotes Power’s definition of colonisation as penetration into organizational core, creating new mentalities and incentives.
• XREF: connects to: Metrics become socially interpreted measures of personal self-worth — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 217; Audited work reshapes labor toward producing representations rather than outcomes — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 91; Audit culture makes symbolic representations of work displace actual work (+3 more)

Related

• Audit culture makes symbolic representations of work displace actual work (similarity 0.89)
• Audit targets reshape institutional activity toward whatever is measured (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Metrics become socially interpreted measures of personal self-worth #expands (0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 217