Sustainability Ratings and the Disciplinary Power of the Ideology of Numbers

The main purpose of this paper is to better understand how sustainability rating agencies, through discourse, promote an “ideology of numbers” that ultimately aims to establish a regime of normalization governing social and environmental performance. Drawing on Thompson’s (Ideology and modern cultur...

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Authors: Chelli, Mohamed (Author) ; Gendron, Yves (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2013
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 112, Issue: 2, Pages: 187-203
Further subjects:B Discourse Analysis
B Mechanisms of exclusion
B rating agencies
B Sustainability
B Disciplinary power
B Ideology of numbers
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