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EBOOK Explorations in Information Space:Knowledge, Agents, and Organization
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191608285
EAN: F0A9C5E0EB
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Stron: 242
Data wydania: 2007
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With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and        services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is        increasingly seen to reside in the former - that is, in intangible assets - rather        than in the latter. Yet we keep wanting to turn knowledge back into something        tangible, something with definite boundaries which can be measured, manipulated,        appropriated, and traded. In short, we want to reify knowledge.Scholars have been        debating the nature of knowledge since the time of Plato. Many new insights have        been gained from these debates, but little theoretical consensus has been achieved.          Through six thematically linked chapters, the book articulates the theoretical        approach to the production and distribution of knowledge that underpins Max Boisot's        conceptual framework, the Information Space or I-Space. In this way the book looks        to provide theoretical and practical underpinnings to Boisot's bookKnowledge Assets        (OUP, 1998).Following an introductory chapter, how knowledge relates to data and        information is first examined in chapter 1, and how different economic actors -        entrepreneurs, managers, etc - use knowledge as a basis for action is explored in        chapter 2. Chapter 3 looks at how the heterogeneity of economic actors arises        naturally from their respective data processing strategies in spite of any        similarities in the data that they might share. Chapter 4 argues, contra much        transaction-based economics,that an organizational order must have preceded a market        order, something that should be reflected in any knowledge-based theory of the firm.          Chapter 5 discusses the cultural and institutional significance of different kinds        of knowledge flows. Finally, chapter 6 presents an agent-based simulation        model,SimISpace, that illustrates how the I-Space might be applied to concrete        problems such those of intellectual property rights. A concluding chapter proposes a        research agenda based on the theorizing developed in the book.The approach the book        sets out is used by a whole range of organizations to issues of knowledge        management, policy, economics, and organizational and cultural change.

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