Information space [electronic resource] . Volume 2 a framework for learning in organizations, institutions and culture / Max H. Boisot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boisot, Max.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Organizations.

Routledge Library Editions: Organizations: Theory & Behaviour

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge management.

Intellectual capital.

Organizational learning.

Information superhighway.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (566 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. He proposes a radical shift in the way that we approach the emerging information age and the implications it holds for societies, organizations and individuals. In this book the author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. The information space, or I-Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. In the penultimate chapter, the I-Space's usefulness as an explanatory framework is illustrated with an application: a case study of China's modernization. Information Space proposes a radical shift in the way that we approach the emerging information age and the implications it holds for societies, organizations and individuals. In this book the author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. The information space, or I-Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. In the penultimate chapter, the I-Space's usefulness as an explanatory framework is illustrated with an application: a case study of China's modernization. Information Space proposes a radical shift in the way that we approach the emerging information age and the implications it holds for societies, organizations and individuals.

Contents:

List of Figures, tables. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Orienting Thoughts on Information. 2. The Structuring of Information. 3. The Sharing of Information. 4. Dynamic Behaviour: The Social Learning Cycle. 5. Institutions. 6. Culture as Economizing. 7. Case Study - Socialist Transformations. 8. Conclusions.

Notes:

"First published in 1995"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 16, 2013).

ISBN:

9780203385456

0203385454

9780415822701

041582270X

9781135930493

113593049X

OCLC:

891140795