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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... paradigm is set up to compete with the dominant one.16 Thus only when a competing paradigm has been developed and becomes available is the discipline's theoretical core genuinely threatened.17 The reason , therefore , that the ...
... paradigm is set up to compete with the dominant one.16 Thus only when a competing paradigm has been developed and becomes available is the discipline's theoretical core genuinely threatened.17 The reason , therefore , that the ...
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... paradigm in spite of its increasingly Ptolemaic appearance rests in large part on the simplicity of its information assumptions , a simplicity that , to be sure , has allowed consider- able progress to be made in our understanding of ...
... paradigm in spite of its increasingly Ptolemaic appearance rests in large part on the simplicity of its information assumptions , a simplicity that , to be sure , has allowed consider- able progress to be made in our understanding of ...
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... paradigms . Finally there is the ' exemplar ' or what Masterman calls an ' artifact ' or a ' construct paradigm ' referring to the concrete accomplishment of a scientific community . The first level comes close to what Holton describes ...
... paradigms . Finally there is the ' exemplar ' or what Masterman calls an ' artifact ' or a ' construct paradigm ' referring to the concrete accomplishment of a scientific community . The first level comes close to what Holton describes ...
Contents
Orienting thoughts on information | 9 |
The structuring of information | 39 |
The sharing of information | 93 |
Copyright | |
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