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Knowledge, Organization, and Management: Building on the Work of Max Boisot de John Child

Knowledge, Organization, and Management: Building on the Work of Max Boisot

Editat de John Child, Martin Ihrig
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iun 2013

Structura acestui volum este concepută ca o incursiune sistematică în moștenirea intelectuală a lui Max Boisot, fiind organizată în cinci secțiuni de bază care acoperă pilonii cercetării sale: analiza sistemului chinez, complexitatea organizațională, managementul strategic al cunoașterii, Big Science și inovația în educație. Notăm cu interes că parcursul propus nu este doar o antologie, ci un dialog activ, fiecare secțiune fiind însoțită de comentarii extinse ale colaboratorilor săi academici, culminând cu șase eseuri reflexive care evaluează impactul teoriilor sale.

Putem afirma că nucleul teoretic care oferă coerență acestor domenii aparent disparate este modelul 'I-Space'. Prin intermediul acestui instrument, cititorul va învăța să descifreze dinamica dintre date, informație și cunoaștere, precum și modul în care acestea se structurează în cadrul firmelor și al societăților. Găsim în această carte o rigoare analitică rar întâlnită în literatura de management contemporană, abordând teme dificile precum fluxurile de informație în organizații complexe.

Complementar volumului Information Space (RLE: Organizations), care pune bazele economiei politice a informației, Knowledge, Organization, and Management extinde aplicabilitatea acestor concepte spre zona practică a managementului strategic și a inovației educaționale. În timp ce Complex Knowledge de Haridimos Tsoukas se concentrează pe natura filosofică și socială a cunoașterii, lucrarea editată de John Child și Martin Ihrig oferă un cadru mai pragmatic și multidimensional, ancorat în studii de caz din realitatea economică globală și din mediul științific de anvergură.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199669165
ISBN-10: 0199669163
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și practicienilor care doresc să depășească nivelul superficial al teoriilor de management. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modelului I-Space, esențial pentru gestionarea activelor intangibile într-o economie globalizată. Este o resursă fundamentală pentru cei care activează în organizații complexe sau care studiază evoluția sistemelor economice internaționale, oferind un avantaj competitiv prin claritate conceptuală.

Despre autor

John Child, editorul acestui volum, deține funcții prestigioase la universități de renume precum Birmingham, Hong Kong și Cambridge. Expertiza sa este vastă, fiind autor a 17 cărți și peste 100 de articole de specialitate. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări din portofoliul său, care pot aborda teme educaționale sau istorice, contribuția sa aici se aliniază direct cu rolul său de consultant pentru corporații majore în design organizațional și alianțe strategice. Experiența sa ca director fondator al centrului de management chinez din Hong Kong îi conferă autoritatea necesară pentru a edita și comenta analizele lui Boisot asupra sistemului din China.

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

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.
Max Boisots lucid explanations of the workings of the knowledge economy profoundly changed my perspective on strategy. He was years ahead of most of us in explaining why periods of maximum value are so fragile and why we need an entirely new logic for business one that emphasizes sharing and speed if our organizations are to be successful. In the knowledge economy, hoping to hide behind entry barriers is futile. As this excellent book demonstrates, Max showed us all an alternative.
Max Boisot's key message has lost none of its topicality and importance: the form and communication of knowledge lie at the heart of human social organization. This book provides an excellent discussion of the challenges and opportunities involvedbe it cultural and institutional differences of systems or the complexity of today's (organizational) world. As Boisot's work applies to people, organizations, and society as a whole, his work inspires a deep reflection and encourages further inquiry into many significant issues.
Boisot's deep insights are brilliantly unpacked and situated, both socially and epistemologically, in this superb collection. Given that nearly every economy is now being disrupted, his I-Space adds timely insights to how to move beyond simplistic analyses to ones that honor the embedded nature of the tacit.
For those of us who had the pleasure of knowing Max, he was one of the most creative and original of people. He had an extraordinary ability to understand how things were actually working and to create an image of how they could be changed. He not only had a powerful imagination but also was deeply grounded in pragmatism. This book is a splendid tribute to a remarkable man. A real visionary.

Notă biografică

John Child is Emeritus Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the British Academy of Management. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy [FBA]. He has published 21 books and approximately 150 articles and book chapters. He has been editor-in-chief of Organization Studies and Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review. His current interests are in organizational design and how smaller firms internationalize.Martin Ihrig is President of I-Space Institute, LLC (USA) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is interested in the strategic and entrepreneurial management of knowledge and heads a research initiative that explores this topic at Wharton's Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center. In developing strategy tools for corporate and public-sector decision makers, he has worked with organizations such as BAE Systems (USA), The Boeing Company (USA), and Vale (Brazil). His research projects have been funded by The Economic & Social Research Council (UK), The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN (CH), and Tekes (Finland).