Numbers, management and justice

Dr François-Régis Puyou, Lecturer in Management, has been featured in a book review symposium published in Organization Studies.

The symposium includes selected reviews of Caleb Everett's 2019 monograph from Harvard University Press, Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures.

Dr Puyou highlights, in his review titled Doing research about (not with) numbers, the importance of not neglecting the issue of power that comes with numbers, as colonial heritage sadly shows. He further calls for developing a particular attention to numbers per se in the field of organisation studies, with potentially fruitful implications for the connection between embodiment and knowledge, symmetry and justice, numbers and symbolic meanings.

Numbers are everywhere. Numbers matter. But how, and most importantly, why? These are the questions raised by Caleb Everett.

Introduction to symposium