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- architects humanity- productive collaboration- scholars persistence- deep originalitywith warm humorimpressionsNotes from Markus Nordberg, Morgen Witzel, David Musson, Ian McMillan1

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the arc of Maxs workarchitecture, managing, city planning, technology transferteaching - 1979 INSEAD & ESCPanthropology, international cultures, organizations1984 China-EC Management Program - CEIBS

1994 Euro-Arab Management School, Grenada

ESADEI-Space Institute, complexity & Atlas/LHCDec-1-2011Max's Academic Work3 of 11Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris - Say & Vital Roux 1819 modeled on the Ecole Polytechnique3Fiefs & Clans - versus - Markets & BureaucraciesBoisot, M. (1986). Markets and Hierarchies in a Cultural Perspective. Organization Studies, 7(2), 135-168 Boisot, M., & Child, J. (1988). The Iron Law of Fiefs: Bureaucratic Failure and the Problem of Governance in the Chinese Economic Reforms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 33, 507-527.Boisot, M., & Child, J. (1996). From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(4), 600-628.Whats going on here?

sharp (empirical China-based) critique of Williamsons Markets & Hierarchies (1975)

proposing a heterogeneous C(ulture)-space - information-based theory of human organization

4 modes of human knowing - 4 modes of organizingDec-1-2011Max's Academic Work4 of 11prescient about network organizationspre-Soviet collapse 19894Dec-1-2011Max's Academic Work5 of 11

time-full cycle of knowing and organizing for further learningversus time-free naivet of micro-economists rational-man theorizing that denies learningC-space

Nonaka & Takeuchi SECI5Dec-1-2011Max's Academic Work6 of 11Boisot, M. (1982). The Codification and Diffusion of Knowledge in the Transactional Strategy of Firms. Keio Economic Studies, 19(1).Boisot, M. (1983). Convergence Revisited: The Codification and Diffusion of Knowledge in a British and a Japanese Firm. Journal of Management Studies, 20(2), 159-190.Boisot, M. (1995). Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture. London: Routledge.Boisot, M. (1998). Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Boisot, M., MacMillan, I. C., & Han, K. S. (Eds.). (2007). Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Agents, and Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press

(formerly known as C-Space)varieties of knowledge types - modes of organizingBoisot, M. (1986). Markets and Hierarchies in a Cultural Perspective. Organization Studies, 7(2), 135-168 Boisot, M., & Child, J. (1988). The Iron Law of Fiefs: Bureaucratic Failure and the Problem of Governance in the Chinese Economic Reforms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 33, 507-527.1979 INSEAD & ESCP - 1984 China-EC Management Program CEIBS

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testing deductions from theoryempiricalgeneralization - inductionsubjectivity,hermeneutics, agency& narrativeorganicism, self-organizing,& emergencemechanical organizingno variety of knowingdecontextualized, dehumanizingFrench engineer-economists impact on coles Polytechnique, Mines, Ponts & Chausses - and ESCPmathematicization of social-empirical phenomena - time & space bounded work (conservation of energy) non-equilibrium dynamism aside from the novelty of his 3-dimensional (architects) modelwhat was so deeply original ?Sadi Carnot, Jules Dupuit 1840s - ESCP 1819 Jean-Baptiste Saymarginalism that preceded Walras, Jevons & Marshallautopoiesis - 3rd way Boisot & McKelvey8Dec-1-2011Max's Academic Work9 of 11several categories of human learning & collaboratingpoverty of research that ignores humanly-lived space and timehuman dynamics of emerging order versus directingthe scholars legacy - better questions !

and so to heterogeneity, non-linearity, or long-tail phenomenaa VERYT unique menu9chaos theory, adaption, budgets & wasteDec-1-2011Max's Academic Work10 of 11

time & space boundedBnard convection cellsJack Cohen 2000 Jim March 1991McKelvey 200610Dec-1-2011Max's Academic Work11

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