Peer-reviewed· Leadership

Dashboards People Trust: Measurement Legitimacy in Large Organisations

A field experiment shows involving teams in metric design cut gaming behaviour by half.

Dr. Hannah LindqvistStockholm School of Economics16 min readDOI 10.5555/bpj.2026.104
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For more than a decade, executives have been told that the next platform, the next suite of tools, or the next wave of automation would finally lift productivity. The evidence assembled here suggests a more uncomfortable reading: the technology rarely fails on its own terms. What fails is the organisational scaffolding around it.

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