The Performance Complex
Competition and Competitions in Social Life
David Stark
Author Information
David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and Director, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University
David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He is also Professor of Social Science at the University of Warwick. His book The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life (2009) studies how organizations and their members search for what's valuable. Stark's current research is supported by a five-year Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for a project on "Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams."
Contributors:
Jonathan Bach, The New School
Dominique Cardon, Sciences Po
William Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University
Elena Esposito, University Bielefeld
Kristian Kreiner, Copenhagen Business School
Lisa McCormick, University of Edinburgh
Fabian Muniesa, Mines ParisTech, PSL University
Will Payne, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Prey, University of Groningen
Marco Solaroli, University of Bologna
David Stark, Columbia University
Niels van Doorn, University of Amsterdam
Olav Velthuis, University of Amsterdam