Introduction: Organizational Innovation

David Stark

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21775

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David Stark Department of Sociology, Columbia University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2435-9619

David Stark, co-Editor-in-Chief of Sociologica, is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University (USA) where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He uses a broad variety of research methods – ethnographic, network analytic, and experimental – to study processes of valuation and innovation. Stark has studied factory workers in socialist Hungary, new media employees in a Silicon Alley startup, derivative traders on Wall Street, electronic music artists in Berlin, bankers in Budapest, farmers in Nebraska, video game producers, and megachurches that look like shopping malls. His recent paper, “Principles of Algorithmic Management” (with Pieter Vanden Broeck), appears in Organization Theory.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21775

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Organizational innovation, Columbia sociology, Organization theory, Theory-driven methodologies, Organization and digital technologies

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This paper introduces a FOCUS Section on Organizational Innovation, including eight papers presented at COI@25, a conference celebrating the 25^th Anniversary of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University in New York City on November 8–9, 2024.

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Muniesa, F. (2025). Estrangement of Meaning in a Wealth of Information. Sociologica, 19(1), 185–193. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21052

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