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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... communication even if what is actually externalized in paint is weakly coded and can only partially convey what is experienced by the artist at the moment of executing the work . Communication between the artist and his audience ...
... communication even if what is actually externalized in paint is weakly coded and can only partially convey what is experienced by the artist at the moment of executing the work . Communication between the artist and his audience ...
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... communication problem Cultural evolution , like biological evolution , is a matter of generating variety , selecting ... communication ? Shannon and Weaver , in their classic text on the subject , 19 identify three types of problem ...
... communication problem Cultural evolution , like biological evolution , is a matter of generating variety , selecting ... communication ? Shannon and Weaver , in their classic text on the subject , 19 identify three types of problem ...
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... communication distance a fraction further and visual contact itself is broken . To the adoring throngs below , the Pope is reduced to little more than a white speck on the balcony of St Peter's . Here , the visual component of the ...
... communication distance a fraction further and visual contact itself is broken . To the adoring throngs below , the Pope is reduced to little more than a white speck on the balcony of St Peter's . Here , the visual component of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Orienting thoughts on information | 9 |
The structuring of information | 39 |
Copyright | |
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activity argue become behaviour bureaucracies C-space capitalism centrifugal culture centripetal culture Chapter China Chinese clans codification and abstraction coding cognitive communication competing competitive concept concrete Confucian convergence cultural evolution cultural order data field data processing dimension discussion distribution economic economists effect efficient enterprise entropy environment epistemological evolution evolutionary example exchange experience external fiefs Figure firm given governance hence hierarchy high context cultures hypotheses I-space in-group individual industrial information asymmetries institutional Institutional Economics interests internal investment Japan Japanese knowledge learning located London Marxism-Leninism modern move nature neoclassical Neural Darwinism objects organization organizational out-groups paradigm Parallel Distributed Processing patterns perception physical Popper population potential problem Rational Expectations rationality reforms region relationships remains Rumelhart Science scientific selection shared social society state-owned strategies symbolic theory tion transactional structures uncodified UNDIFFUSED values York