Calculative practices

Elena Giovannoni and Paolo Quattrone

Chapter 4.4 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 376-379 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Calculations are pervasive. From how we manage our households’ accounts to how we engage with societal, and geo-political global phenomena. They make measuring, recording, reporting, strategizing, planning, controlling, decision-making or legitimizing, sense-making, playing, inventories and inventions, possible. They translate abstract phenomena and qualities into concrete calculable objects that become quantities. As much as it is important to consider what calculative practices are and allow, it is also relevant to reflect on what they conceal and leave mysterious. This can provide novel pathways for strategizing by leveraging calculative practices to explore the not known, not visible, not yet and not there in strategy or organizing as a resource for pragmatic action and imagination.

Keywords: Calculative practices; Quantification; Decision-making; Ambiguity; Incompleteness; Invisibility; Mystery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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