Sense and Sensibility: Of Dissonance for Organizational Innovations

Book Review on Stark D. 2009. The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009)

Abstract

Attracting the results of three ethnographic research projects, David Stark demonstrates the importance of heterarchy for organizational innovation. Heterarchies are resulted from recombination of actors’ spatial location, job status, technical systems, tools and evaluation principles of organizational goods while searching for the new and trying to organize dissonance generated by diversity of evaluation principles. Evaluation principles improve organization’s adaptability to any environmental and social changes.