{"product_id":"tension-and-invention-balazs-vedres-9781479847792","title":"Tension and Invention: Networks for Collective Creativity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow friction, diversity, and tension drive breakthrough ideas in business, technology, and culture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eTension and Invention, \u003c\/i\u003e Balazs Vedres and David Stark argue that generative tension is the critical, yet often unacknowledged, mechanism that drives innovation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffering a compelling theoretical and empirical basis for rethinking the foundations of creative production, \u003ci\u003eTension and Invention \u003c\/i\u003edelivers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Balazs Vedres,David Stark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479847798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479847792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Balazs Vedres","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997508350207,"sku":"9781479847792","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tension-and-invention-balazs-vedres-9781479847792","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}