The Metrics of Ethics and the Ethics of Metrics

被引:13
作者
Islam, Gazi [1 ,2 ]
Greenwood, Michelle [3 ]
机构
[1] Grenoble Ecole Management, Grenoble, France
[2] IREGE, Grenoble, France
[3] Monash Univ, Fac Business & Econ, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
关键词
Metrics; Measurement; Quantification; Representation; Performativity; Audit society; Datafication;
D O I
10.1007/s10551-021-05004-x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Metrics shape our social worlds in many and more ways. Everyday quantifications of our preferences, our behaviors and our relationships, alter us and the institutions that we constitute. This essay takes a brief look at the metrics of business ethics through two analytic devices. Representation explains the notion that metrics can capture or demonstrate ethics (the metrics of ethics) and performativity explains the notion that metrics can shape or constitute ethics (the ethics of metrics). The analytic distinction between representation and performativity is obscured in practice when metrics become targets, indeed much of the social power of metrics comes from their use as targets. Hence, we should pay attention to the world of practice in which measuring and doing are entangled. However, we should not lose sight of the limitations of measurement and the possibility that there are areas of ethical life best left unmeasured.
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