How to do more with numbers: Elementary stakes, framing, keying, and the three-dimensional character of numerical signs

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School mathematics and its everyday other? Revisiting Lave’s ‘Cognition in Practice’ (2008, background): “…and approvingly quoted – not only in educational studies (see Henning, 2004), but also in other fields such as economics (Mousavi and Garrison, 2003), organisation studies (Callon and Muniesa, 2005), accounting (Vollmer, 2007), and social studies of science (Bowker and Star, 1999; Verran, 2001).”
From counting risk to making risk count: Boundary-work in risk management (2011, background): “Sociologically oriented accounting studies have long argued that numbers are narratives, used to communicate visions of what there is, what might happen and what might be done about it (Lavoie, 1987; Hopwood and Miller, 1994; Mouritsen et al., 2001; Vollmer, 2007).”
Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of compromising accounts (2013, background): “persuasiveness of numbers in accounts and the role of quantification in advancing particular views and interests (e.g., Robson, 1992; Porter, 1995; Vollmer, 2007).”
Tracking the numbers: Across accounting and finance, organizations and markets (2009, background): “The pool of comparative material may be widened (see e.g. Mennicken & Vollmer, 2007) to include not only different forms of economic calculation, but also forms of statistical reasoning (e.g. Desrosières, 2002; Hacking, 1984; Porter, 1986; MacKenzie 1978), mathematical (Heintz, 2003; MacKenzie,…”