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2023 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

17. Peace Piece: On the Machiavellian Moment in Organizational Innovation

Authors : Karl Palmås, Stefan Molnar

Published in: Debating Innovation

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In contrast to accounts that describe innovation as solely a matter of disruption, this chapter explores the role of stabilization in innovation. Starting from a brief review of Machiavelli’s views on innovation, it introduces the work of sociologist David Stark as a contemporary account of how successful organizational innovations are dependent on negotiations, settlements, and resolutions. For Stark, innovation is a play between dissonance and resolution; a clashing of contradictory values, succeeded by a negotiated resolution of such tensions. In reviewing critiques of Stark’s account, the chapter seeks to extend his work by embellishing the musicological connotations of the dynamic between dissonance and resolution. In so doing, the chapter suggests that music may assist in conceptualizing the simultaneous occurrence of dissonance and stability in organizations.

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Metadata
Title
Peace Piece: On the Machiavellian Moment in Organizational Innovation
Authors
Karl Palmås
Stefan Molnar
Copyright Year
2023
Book
Debating Innovation

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-16665-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-16666-2

Copyright Year: 2023

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16666-2_17