Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041511490X ISBN 13: 9780415114905

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 1995

Synopsis

Starting from the physical and social circumstances under which information is produced and exchanged, the author shows how the speed with which knowledge is shared, depends on how it is codified and abstracted. Information space or the "I-Space" is the concept used to map out the landscape we now inhabit, in which knowledge, information, culture and institutions themselves are being rapidly transformed by technologies. In the penultimate chapter, the contemporary modernization of China is used as a case study of the complex processes of work in the I-Space. With three dimensional diagrams, this text presents ways to understand the emerging information age in its own terms, together with its implications for societies, organizations and individuals.

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Review

‘A first class treatise...a milestone in economic thinking’ Ervin Laslo, The General Evolution Group

‘Boisot is a fine writer, an elegant thinker....This knowledge of culture is indispensable to the design of strategies for institutional change’ Laurence E Lynn Jr, University of Chicago

‘This is one of those rare path-breaking books which academics or practitioners should not ignore.’ John Child, University of Cambridge.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041511490X
• ISBN 13: 9780415114905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Boisot Max