The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life

by David Stark

Chapter 1 from this book is published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic

What's valuable?

Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This book examines what happens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198861664
• ISBN13: 9780198861669
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"