Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and CultureIn this book, Max Boisot lays the foundation for a new political economy of information to effectively meet today's needs. Information Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions, and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. This book proposes a radical shift in the way we approach the emerging information age and the implications it holds for societies, organizations, and individuals. |
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... Concrete knowledge originating in quadrant 1 is for the most part highly parochial . In his field observations of oral traditions , Vansina has observed that many pre - literate groups only narrate their own history and refuse to recite ...
... Concrete knowledge originating in quadrant 1 is for the most part highly parochial . In his field observations of oral traditions , Vansina has observed that many pre - literate groups only narrate their own history and refuse to recite ...
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... concrete circumstances , and that our microworld is but a shrunken version of the macroworld . We have a built - in disposition to believe that what you see is epistemologically what you get . What is mythology , after all , if not ...
... concrete circumstances , and that our microworld is but a shrunken version of the macroworld . We have a built - in disposition to believe that what you see is epistemologically what you get . What is mythology , after all , if not ...
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... concrete immediacy of A , it is also beyond the reach of unambiguous empirical testing . Its link with concrete reality is indirect and open to competing interpretation . Duhem , Quine , 63 and later Lakatos64 have all pointed out how ...
... concrete immediacy of A , it is also beyond the reach of unambiguous empirical testing . Its link with concrete reality is indirect and open to competing interpretation . Duhem , Quine , 63 and later Lakatos64 have all pointed out how ...
Contents
Orienting thoughts on information | 9 |
The structuring of information | 39 |
The sharing of information | 93 |
Copyright | |
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