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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Page 107
... interest in the technical level , somewhat more interest in the semantic level , and the greatest interest of all in the pragmatic level , the one at which the problem of socially validated meaning appears . Recall that the technical ...
... interest in the technical level , somewhat more interest in the semantic level , and the greatest interest of all in the pragmatic level , the one at which the problem of socially validated meaning appears . Recall that the technical ...
Page 250
... interest . The implication here is that the ' right hands ' do serve the public interest and are prepared to subordinate private goals to public ones . A professional bureaucrat or ' public servant ' , for example , is someone who not ...
... interest . The implication here is that the ' right hands ' do serve the public interest and are prepared to subordinate private goals to public ones . A professional bureaucrat or ' public servant ' , for example , is someone who not ...
Page 281
... interests to be served by a given governance structure are positioned on a vertical axis and the range of activities that can serve such interests are positioned on the horizontal axis . This allows us to distinguish between governance ...
... interests to be served by a given governance structure are positioned on a vertical axis and the range of activities that can serve such interests are positioned on the horizontal axis . This allows us to distinguish between governance ...
Contents
Orienting thoughts on information | 9 |
The structuring of information | 39 |
The sharing of information | 93 |
Copyright | |
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