Knowledge Assets

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Information Perspective


• 3: I-Space: The Information Space


• 4: The Paradox of Value


• 5: Neoclassical versus Schumpeterian Orientation to Learning


• 6: Culture as a Knowledge Asset


• 7: Products, Technologies, and Organizations in the Social Learning Cycle


• 8: Competence and Intent


• 9: IT and its Impact


• 10: Applying the I-Space


• 11: Recapitulation and Conclusion

Max Boisot is Professor of Strategic Management at ESADE in Barcelona. He is also Poh Seng Yeoh Research Fellow at the Sol Snider Entrepreneurial Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Senior Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies; and Visiting Fellow at the Management School, Imperial College in London. From 1984 to 1989 he was the first dean and director of the China-EC Management Programme in Beijing, which has now become the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS).

Max Boisot has written a book for any thinking manager, politician or lawyer interested in the role of information and intellectual property in the evolution of the information economy. Ian MacMillan, George W. Taylor Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, The Wharton School of Management. For those struggling to understand how knowledge-based organizations can develop and exploit their distinctive competences, Boisot's book provides profound insights and challenges. Dr Keith Blois, Templeton College, University of Oxford ...this is for the scientist who want to impress managers. It's a serious book. Harold Thimbleby. New Scientist In his new book Boisot... addresses and explores new issues that are relevant from a managerial point of view. Without any doubt Boisot's I-space theory is one of the most comprehensive theories in the management literature. Sage Publications ...his book represents an important step towards the development of a knowledge-based theory of the firm. It is likely to be of use to academics, as well as the growing clan of practitioners in firms who are interested in management and organisational theory. Jane Millar, Times Higher Education Supplement If you accept that knowledge and the ability to use it is a key competitive resource, you must read this book. If you do not accept this, then also read it to discover where you are wrong before it is too late! John Child, Guinness Professor of Management Studies, University of Cambridge

Max Boisot has written a book for any thinking manager, politician or lawyer interested in the role of information and intellectual property in the evolution of the information economy. Ian MacMillan, George W. Taylor Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, The Wharton School of Management.