Knowledge, Organization, and Management
Building on the Work of Max Boisot
- Publisher's listprice GBP 112.50
-
53 746 Ft (51 187 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 5 375 Ft off)
- Discounted price 48 372 Ft (46 068 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
53 746 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 June 2013
- ISBN 9780199669165
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 240x162x23 mm
- Weight 622 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
The book presents and reviews the ideas of Max Boisot, one of the most original thinkers in organization theory over the last 30 years. It includes Boisot's seminal works on knowledge, information, and organization, as well as commentaries and reflections by his collaborators.
MoreLong description:
Max Boisot was one of the most original thinkers in management and organization studies. An independent scholar with an independent, enquiring, and innovative mind, his work ranged over a number of different areas from early attempts to understand contemporary developments in China to the role of information in organizations, and later the management of Big Science.
Yet, as this book shows, there was a central strand that ran through these apparently diverse areas, which was the attempt to understand the relationship between knowledge and information, and its organization -- in firms, organizations, and societies -- by means of the model Boisot developed, the 'I-Space'. Knowledge, Organization, and Management brings together key examples of Max Boisot's work into a single volume, setting these alongside original, extended commentaries and reflections by his academic collaborators. Structured under five core sections, it covers the main areas in which he forged new understandings: analyses of the Chinese system; organizational complexity; the strategic management of knowledge; knowledge in Big Science; and innovations in education. A further section includes six reflective essays by Boisot's collaborators.
The book will be invaluable to organization and management scholars, students, and intellectually curious practitioners.
Max Boisot was a deep thinker whose interest in knowledge enabled him to make important contributions to many areas: Chinese economic development, strategic management, innovation, and the organization of advanced science, to name but a few. In this volume, Child and Ihrig bring together Boisot's pathbreaking articles, and combine them with thoughtful appreciations by those who knew him best. The result is a worthy tribute to Boisot's legacy, and a wonderful way to introduce his thinking to a new generation of scholars.
Table of Contents:
I. Setting the stage
Max Boisot and the Dynamic Evolution of Knowledge
II. Analyses of the Chinese System
From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order
Analysis of the Chinese System
III. Organizational Complexity
Extreme Outcomes, Connectivity, and Power Laws: Towards an Econophysics of Organization
Reflecting on Max Boisot s Ashby Space Applied to Complexity Management
IV. The Strategic Management of Knowledge
The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge
The Strategic Management of Knowledge
V. Knowledge in Big Science
Generating Knowledge in a Connected World: The Case of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN
Knowledge in Big Science
VI. Innovations in Education
Chinese Boxes and Learning Cubes: Action Learning in a Cross Cultural Context
Innovations in Education
VII. Concluding Reflections
The I-Space as a Key to History and to Culture
The Three Phases of Max s Theorizing
Writing with Max Boisot
Remembering Max Boisot: Recollections of a Gifted Intellect at Work
I-Space and the Value of Basic Research
Boisot and the God Particle
Conclusion and Outlook
