Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds1

By W. Espeland, Michael Sauder. 2007

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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “Second, studies of monitoring, evaluation, and measuring technologies demonstrate that they produce reactivity behaviors , thus altering the very social context that the original design was meant to support [15, 22, 25].”
Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature” (2011, unknown): “Like ranking systems (Espeland and Sauder 2007), money has the power to flatten, abstract, and homogenize qualitatively different things.”
How should we do the history of Big Data? (2016, background): “…enable us to understand the power dynamics that reside within these accumulating data about people and populations (instructive examples here are Espeland and Sauder, 2007; Espeland and Department of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, York, UK Corresponding author: David Beer,…”
Algorithms in practice: Comparing web journalism and criminal justice (2017, background): “A second set of strategies has to do with ‘‘gaming,’’ which Espeland and Sauder define as ‘‘manipulating rules and numbers in ways that are unconnected to, or even undermine, the motivation behind them’’ (Espeland and Sauder, 2007: 29).”
Where Do Market Categories Come From and How? Distinguishing Category Creation From Category Emergence (2017, unknown): “…from category creation being primarily and substantially channeled towards category creators, market intermediaries benefit from not only sponsoring incumbents’ category creations but also initiating the process (Espeland & Sauder, 2007; Fleischer, 2009; Khaire, in press; Wadhwani & Khaire, 2015).”
College Rankings as an Interorganizational Dependency: Establishing the Foundation for Strategic and Institutional Accounts (2011, methodology): “They also argue law schools are influenced by the process of commensuration (Espeland and Stevens 1998), by which evaluation ‘‘is characterized by the transformation of qualities into quantities that share a metric, a process that is fundamental to measurement’’ (Espeland and Sauder 2007, p. 16).”
Keeping up Appearances (2013, background): “…to take on a life of their own, drawing attention to the positive aspects of highly ranked firms (e.g., Fombrun and Shanley, 1990; Roberts and Dowling, 2002) and cultivating positive expectations about the way that organizations should behave in their respective field (Espeland and Sauder, 2007).”
Platform Real Estate: theory and practice of new urban real estate markets (2018, background): “Forms of resistance could include more subtle workplace practices of behavioural reactivity against PRE (Espeland & Sauder, 2007), or more direct interventions for collective gains: hacking smart meters; campaigns to regulate algorithmic redlining; or the development of alternative platforms…”
Learning to Live with League Tables and Ranking: The Experience of Institutional Leaders (2008, background): “It may also force HEIs to abandon distinctive missions – such as access programmes – that are not measured in rankings (Espeland and Sauder, 2007, 15).”
Gender-role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: An Examination of Networking among Entrepreneurs (2020, background): “Decision makers often rely on status orderings in these cases based on the belief that most other people prefer higher-status options (Uzzi and Lancaster, 2004; Adut, 2005; Espeland and Sauder, 2007; Correll et al., 2017).”
Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, background): “The fact that competitors collect similar information for strategic purposes makes the prospect of opting-out or ignoring such information perilous (see also effects of rankings e.g. Espeland and Sauder 2007).”
Accounting, Organizing, and Economizing: Connecting Accounting Research and Organization Theory (2013, unknown): “And yet the calculable self, in terms of the allocation of attention, cognition, and economic resource, is also an empirical phenomenon as agents react to efforts to account for and evaluate them (Espeland & Sauder, 2007).”
Getting on the Front Page: Organizational Reputation, Status Signals, and the Impact of U.S. News and World Report on Student Decisions (2009, background): “Decision theory, however, would suggest that these high-level administrators are much less likely than students and parents to be persuaded, since administrators possess a great deal of information about peer institutions, and many of them believe the rankings are quite flawed (Finder 2007).”