Erscheint: November 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Tension and Invention
Networks for Collective Creativity
Verlag:
New York University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35836882
EAN: 9781479847785
Erscheint: November 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 131.–
Beschreibung
How friction, diversity, and tension drive breakthrough ideas in business, technology, and culture. In the popular imagination, innovation is associated with the lone genius. Innovation, however, is never the product of one individual, but rather occurs through the combined efforts of a network of people. But how do these networks operate. In Tension and Invention,. Balazs Vedres and David Stark argue that generative tension is the critical, yet often unacknowledged, mechanism that drives innovation. The authors deconstruct conventional accounts of organizational behavior that equate efficiency with efficacy in creative endeavors. Using a diverse variety of empirical case studies including jazz combos, business groups, and video game developers, Vedres and Stark show how friction, far from being a liability, actively precipitates invention in contexts of radical uncertainty. The result is a theory of innovation on how disjuncture and dissonance, when structurally organized, can be harnessed for discovery. Offering a compelling theoretical and empirical basis for rethinking the foundations of creative production, Tension and Invention. delivers a powerful message: creativity is not born from smoothness or consensus, but from the productive struggles of difference. Invention happens because of tension, not despite it.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- David Stark
- Balazs Vedres
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 192