The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

By David Stark. 2009

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Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award—“Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited” Ten Years Later (2015, background): “The work on hybrid firms has investigated how hybrid organizations adjudicate the organizational and institutional dissonance in attending to contrasting performance recipes (e.g., Battilana & Lee, 2014; Stark, 2009).”
Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of compromising accounts (2013, methodology): “In particular, we show how the design and operation of accounts can create the potential for ‘productive friction’ to arise from the coming together of different evaluative principles (Stark, 2009).”
Valuation Studies? Our Collective Two Cents (2013, background): “A !nal facet of the valuation process, raised most clearly by Steve Woolgar and Jan Mouritsen, concerns its procedural facet.”
Reconfiguring relations of accountability: Materialization of social media in the travel sector (2011, methodology): “Stark (2009) argues that the contemporaneous emergence of collaborative forms of organizing and interactive technologies that characterize social media websites is highly significant.”
Imagined futures: fictional expectations in the economy (2013, background): “According to David Nye (2004), technological predictions are narratives about our desires for the future, rather than accurate reflections of technological capabilities.”
The dynamics of interfirm networks along the industry life cycle: The case of the global video game industry, 1987–2007 (2013, background): “…are inherently characterized by cycles of fads and fashions and the constant demand for novelty, which gave rise to the project-based organization of production, continuous renegotiation of value(s) and the importance of local buzz (Grabher, 2001; Storper and Venables, 2004; Stark, 2009).”
Geographies of markets: Materials, morals and monsters in motion (2011, background): “Accordingly, starting from the assumption that modern economies comprise multiple principles of evaluation (only one, though admittedly crucial of which is ‘market rationality’) it makes little sense to say that one lives in a ‘market economy’ (Stark, 2009: 11).”
Pragmatist perspectives on valuation : an introduction (2015, methodology): “The social settings for innovation are characterized by differences being held in tension (Stark 2009).”
The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science (2019, background): “Scientific development is then the process where concepts are added to the ever-growing “ constellation ”— i.e., our accumulating corpus of texts — in new combinations: The introduction of new links between scientific concepts (14, 15, 28 – 30).”
The Role of Interdependence in the Micro-Foundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence (2020, background): “Stark (2011) made a similar argument in his description of heterarchies, which he defined as systems of “distributed intelligence” (p. 19) or “distributed cognition” (p. 132).”
Effective professional learning communities? The possibilities for teachers as agents of change in schools (2014, background): “Boltanski and Thévenot identify six different worlds each of which ‘defines the good, the just, and the fair—but according to different criteria of judgement’ (Stark, 2009, p. 12).”
The governance of global wealth chains (2017, background): “global wealth chains; global value chains; offshore; financial governance; taxation; MNCs; inequality.”
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory (2011, background): “…to be complex, dynamic, distributed, mobile, transient, and unprecedented, and as such, we need approaches that will help us theorize these kinds of novel, indeterminant, and emergent phenomena (Barley and Kunda, 2001; Child and McGrath, 2001; Ciborra, 1996; Law and Urry, 2004; Stark, 2009).”
Where Do Prices Come From? Sociological Approaches to Price Formation (2011, background): “…qualification of products have recently become an important topic in economic sociology (Beckert/Aspers 2011; Callon 1998; Fourcade 2011; Karpik 2010; Stark 2009), the explanation of prices still plays only a limited role (Swedberg 2003; Uzzi/Lancaster 2004; Yakubovich/Granovetter/McGuire 2005).”