stark 3675 syllabus fall 2018
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OrganizingInnovationSociologyUN3675
DepartmentofSociology,ColumbiaUniversityDavidStark Fall2018Lecture:Tues/Thurs10:10-11:25 717Hamiltonofficehours:Wed4:10-6:00pm 701CKnoxHalltel:212-854-3972 [email protected]
http://www.davidcstark.com
Thiscourseexaminesmajorinnovationsinorganizationsandaskswhetherinnovationitselfcanbeorganized.We study a range of forms of organizing (e.g., bureaucratic, post-bureaucratic, andopenarchitecturenetworkforms)inabroadvarietyofsettings:fromfoodsystemstothemilitary-entertainmentcomplex,fromairlinecockpitstoWallStreettradingrooms,fromengineeringfirmsto mega-churches, from improv comedy to PowerPoint demonstrations, from scientificmanagement at the turn of the twentieth century to collaborative filtering and open sourceprogramming at the beginning of the twenty-first. Special attentionwill be paid to relationshipbetween organizational forms and new digital technologies. Basic concepts in organizationalanalysis – groups, projects, communities, knowledge, networks, search, collaboration, space,location,users, producers – are revisitedwhenorganizationaldesign cannotbe separated fromdesignofthedigitalinterface.Discussionsections:Discussionssectionswillbeginmeetingduringthesecondweek.Youshouldcometosectionspreparedtodiscussthereadingsforagivenweek.Duringthesecondpartofthecourse,sectionswillalsobeanopportunitytodiscussyourresearchforthefinalpaper.Requirements:Attendlectures;informedparticipationinclassdiscussionsbasedonthereadingseachweek;openbookmid-termexam;and researchpaperor take-home final exam.The topicandtheformatofthefinalpaperareyourchoice,inconsultationwiththeinstructor.Ourmutualgoalistofindatopicandmeansofpresentationthatbestmeetsyourneeds.Readings:Booksareavailableonlibraryreserve,alsoforpurchaseatBookCulture,112thSt.Sections:a dayandtimeb dayandtimec dayandtimeTeachingAssistants: LarryAu [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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PARTI*indicatesrequiredreadings(otherreadingsarerecommended)
Weekof
Sept.4th Introductiontothecourse
Sept.11th Microtechnologiesofpower:Scientificmanagment
*FrederickWinslowTaylor,ThePrinciplesofScientificManagement,pp.1-85.AvailableonCourseworks.
*JodiKantorandDaviStreitfeld,“InsideAmazon:WrestlingBigIdeasinaBruisingWorkplace.”NYTimesMagazineAug15,2015nyti.ms/1TfqcOG
*RobertSkidelsky,“TheProgrammedProspectBeforeUs.”NewYorkReviewofBooks,April3,2014.
MichelFoucault,DisciplineandPunish,pp.135-194.
MaxWeber,“Bureaucracy.”EconomyandSociety,volII.pp.956-1005.
CharlieChaplin,clipfromModernTimes.
Sept.18thExtensionsofscientificmanagementandthelossofsocio-diversity
*MichaelPollan,Omnivore’sDilemma.Chapters2-5,pp.32-99.PenguinPress,2006.
*DavidStark,“Work,Worth,andJusticeinaSocialistFactory.”Chapter2inTheSenseofDissonance:AccountsofWorthinEconomicLife,PrincetonUniversityPress,2009,pp.35-80.
CarloPetrini,SlowFood:TheCaseforTaste.ColumbiaUniversityPress,2001.
DavidStark,“BendingtheBarsoftheIronCage:BureaucratizationandInformalizationinCapitalismandSocialism,”SociologicalForum,vol4,no4,1989:637-664.
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Sept.25thFromHierarchytoHeterarchy
*AndrewHargadon.2003.HowBreakthroughsHappen.HarvardBusinessSchoolPress,Chapter1-3,pp.3-64.*DavidStark,“CreativeFrictioninaNew-MediaStart-up.”Chapter3inTheSenseofDissonance,pp.81-117.
JohnSeelyBrownandJohnHagel,“ProductiveFriction:HowDifficultBusinessPartnershipsCanAccelerateInnovation.”HarvardBusinessReview,Feb1,2005.
PlumbDesign,“Manifesto.”
W.BrianArthur,“TheLogicofInvention.”SantaFeInstituteWorkingPaper,2005.
JohnSeelyBrown,“Introduction:RethinkingInnovationinaChangingWorld,”inBrown(ed.)SeeingDifferently:InsightsonInnovation.Cambridge,MA:HarvardBusinessSchoolPress,1997,pp.ix-xxviii.
Oct2ndNetworkformsoforganizatio
*JoelPodolonyandKarenL.Page.1998.“Networkformsoforganization.”AnnualReviewofSociology24:57-76.
*MathijsdeVaan,BalazsVedres,andDavidStark,“GameChanger:TheTopologyofCreativity.”AJS.120(4):1144-1194,January2015.
BrianUzziandJarrettSpiro,“CollaborationandCreativity:TheSmallWorldProblem.”AmericanJournalofSociology111:447–504,2005.
RichardLesterandMichaelPiore,Innovation:TheHiddenDimension.HarvardUniverityPress,2004.Chapters1,2,3,7,and8.WalterPowell,“NeitherMarketNorHierarchy:NetworkFormsofOrganization.”ResearchinOrganizationalBehavior1990.12:295-336.TheTornadoProject(user-generatedprofessionaltornadodatacollectionforchasersandmeteorologists).GinaNeffandDavidStark,“PermanentlyBeta:ResponsiveOrganizationintheInternetEra.”InPhilipE.N.HowardandSteveJones,eds.,SocietyOnline:TheInternetInContext.ThousandOaks,CA:Sage,2003,pp.173-188.
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Oct.9thThePlatformEconomy
*ElizabethWatkinsandDavidStark,“TheMobiusOrganizationalForm:Make,Buy,Cooperate,orCo-Opt?”Sociologica2018/1.
*RobertPrey,"Nothingpersonal:algorithmicindividuationonmusicstreamingplatforms."Media,Culture&Society(2017):0163443717745147.Oct11th HowTechnologyisBringingRetailBacktoItsPersonalRoots
GuestLecture:AnaAndjelic,globalbrandstrategist.http://www.andjelicaaa.com
Oct16th EveryoneaPerformer,EveryoneaJudge
*CarolinGerlitzandAnneHelmond,"Thelikeeconomy:Socialbuttonsandthedata-intensiveweb."NewMedia&Society15.8(2013):1348-1365. *RachelBotsman,"BigdatameetsBigBrotherasChinamovestorateitscitizens."Wired.Oct21(2017).*TainaBucher,“WanttobeontheTop?AlgorithmicpowerandthethreatofinvisibilityonFacebook.”NewMedia&Society14(7),2012:1164-1180.
*CathyO’Neil,WeaponsofMathDestruction(Chapter3,ArmsRace:GoingtoCollege).NY:BroadwayBooks,2017,pp.50-67.
Oct23rd Fromscientificmanagementtomanagementoftheself
*AndrewRoss,No-Collar:TheHumaneWorkplaceanditsHiddenCosts.TempleUniversityPress,2003,pp.1-160and244-258.
*GideonKunda,EngineeringCulture:ControlandCommitmentinaHigh-TechCorporation.TempleUniversityPress,1992,pp.1-25,50-106,154-216.
Oct30thReview
Nov1st Mid-termexam
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PartIINov6thNoclass,electionrecess
Nov8thTopic:TheExperienceEconomy;Setting:Religion
*JamesB.Twitchell,BrandedNation.Chapter2,“OneMarketUnderGod.”SimonandSchuster,2004,pp.47-108.
NYTimesarticleonconvertingoldshoppingmalls.February6,2012.GaryShteyngart,SuperSadTrueLoveStory.
Nov13thTopic:Improvization;Setting:ComedySUNDAYNov11thImprovComedy7:30pmUprightCitizensBrigade307W.26thStreet.*UprightCitizensBrigade,ComedyManual.KarlE.Weick,“ImprovisationasaMindsetforOrganizationalAnalysis.”OrganizationScience9(5)1998:543-555.YinandYangofCorporateInnovation(NYTimesarticleonimprovization).Jan29,2012.
RobertFaulknerandHowardBecker,Doyouknow...?TheJazzRepertoireinAction.UniversityofChicagoPress,2009.
Meyerson,Debra,KarlE.Weick,andRoderickM.Kramer.1996.Swifttrustandtemporarygroups.Pp.166-195inTrustinOrganizations,eds.R.M.KarmerandT.R.Tyler,.ThousandOaks:SAGE.GernotGrabher,“CoolProjects,BoringInstitutions:TemporaryCollaborationinSocialContext.”RegionalStudies36(3)2002:205-214.Nov15thTopic:ImprovizationSetting:RecoveryafterDisaster
*DanielBeunzaandDavidStark,“TheOrganizationofResponsiveness:InnovationandRecoveryintheTradingRoomsofLowerManhattan.”Socio-EconomicReview2003,1(2):135-164.
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*MoniqueGirardandDavidStark,“Socio-technologiesofAssembly:Sense-makingandDemonstrationinRebuildingLowerManhattan.”InDavidLazerandViktorMayer-Schoenberger,eds.,GovernanceandInformation:TheRewiringofGoverningandDeliberationinthe21stCentury.NewYorkandOxford:OxfordUniversityPress(2006,inpress).
Nov.20thTopic:SimulationSetting:TheMilitary-EntertainmentComplex*TimLenoir,“AllbutWarisSimulation:TheMilitary-EntertainmentComplex.”Configurations,2000,8:289-335.*LucySuchman,“SensingWarattheInterface:ImmersiveTrainingSimulationsandtheSense-able.”
DanBaum,“BattleLessons:WhattheGeneralsDon’tKnow,”TheNewYorker,January17,2005,pp.42-48.
TimLenoir,“ProgrammingTheatresofWar:GamemakersasSoldier.”InRobertLatham,ed.,Bytes,Bandwidth,andBullets,NewYork:TheNewPress,2003.
Onvideogamesimulationsandsportssee“GameChangers:HowVideogamesTrainedaGenerationofAthletes.”WiredJan25,2010.http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_gamechanger/
BruceSterling,“WarisVirtualHell.”Wired1.01March/April1993.
ManuelDeLanda,WarintheAgeofIntelligentMachines.NewYork:SwerveEditions,1991.Especially,Chapter3,“Interface”pp.217-231.
PaulM.Leonardi,CarCrashesWithoutCars:LessonsAboutSimulationTechnologyandOrganizationalChangeFromAutomotiveDesign,2012,Cambridge,MA:MITPress
LilianaDoganovaandFabianMuniesa,“Capitalizationdevices:businessmodelsandtherenewalofmarkets.”InMakingThingsValuable.OxfordUniversityPress,2015.
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Nov22ndThanksgivingHoliday(noclass)
Topic:ConstraintsSetting:Filmmaking
FiveObstructionsdirectedbyJorgenLethandLarsvonTrier
Nov27thTopictobedetermined.
Dec4th Studentpresentations
Dec6th Studentpresentations
Deadlineforresearchpaper(tobeannounced).
Take-homefinalexam(tobeannounced).