Max Boisot

Max Henri Boisot (1943–2011) was Professor of Strategic Management at the ESADE business school in Barcelona,^[1] Associate Fellow at Templeton College, University of Oxford, and Senior Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge.^[2]

He was also a research fellow at the Sol Snider Center, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His book Knowledge Assets was awarded the Ansoff Prize for the best book on strategy in 2000. The I-Space framework which is central to his work is an acknowledged early influence on the development of the Cynefin framework.^[3]

He attended Gordonstoun and later studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before taking his PhD in technology transfer at Imperial College London. After working as a manager for construction firm Trafalgar House, in 1972 Boisot co-founded an architectural partnership, Boisot Waters Cohen, and from 1975 to 1978 acted as a consultant on projects in France and the Middle East.^[4]from 1983 to 1989, he was Director and Dean of China Europe Management Institute in Beijing China.

Max Boisot died from cancer on 7 September 2011, aged 67.^[5]

Published work

• Information and Organization: The Manager as Anthropologist. London: Collins (1987)
• (Editor) East-West Collaboration: the Challenge of Governance in Post-Socialist Enterprises, London: Routledge (1993)
• Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations Institutions and Cultures, London: Routledge (1995)
• Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1998). ISBN 978-0198296072
• Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Agents and Organization, co-authored with Ian C. MacMillan and Kyeong Seok Han, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2007). ISBN 978-0199250875

See also

• Encapsulated knowledge
• Social capital

References

1. ^ "ESADE – GRACO Who we are > Esade members". http://www.esade.edu/research/eng/graco/whoweare/esademembers. Retrieved 9 July 2010. 
2. ^ "People – CIBAM – Faculty & Research – Cambridge Judge Business School". http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/research/centres/cibam/people.html#academic. Retrieved 9 July 2010. 
3. ^ Snowden, D. (2002) “Complex Acts of Knowing: Paradox and Descriptive Self Awareness” in the Journal of Knowledge Management – Vol. 6, No. 2 (May), pp. 100–111
4. ^ Morgen Witzel (2003). "Max Boisot". Fifty key figures in management. Routledge. 
5. ^ Max Boisot 1943-2011

Further reading

• Leong, Lam Chuan. "Complexity, Bureaucracy and the Information Space". Ethos (Jul–Sep 2005). http://www.cscollege.gov.sg/cgl/EthosPast/05Jul/05Complexity.pdf. Retrieved 11 June 2010. 
• Savory, Clive (2006). "Translating knowledge to build technological competence". Management Decision 44 (8): 1052–1075. doi:10.1108/00251740610690612. http://oro.open.ac.uk/7094/. Retrieved 11 June 2010. 

External links

• Homepage at Strategic Learning Partners
• Homepage at Birmingham Business School

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Name	Boisot, Max Henri
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Short description	British academic and educator
Date of birth	1943
Place of birth
Date of death	7 September 2011
Place of death