Max Boisot was one of the most original thinkers in management and organization studies. An independent scholar with an independent, enquiring, and innovative mind, his work ranged over a number of different areas from early attempts to understand contemporary developments in China to the role of information in organizations, and later the management of Big Science.Yet, as this book shows, there was a central strand that ran through these apparently diverse areas, which was the attempt to understand the relationship between knowledge and information, and its organization - in firms, organizations, and societies - by means of the model Boisot developed, the 'I-Space'. Knowledge, Organization, and Management brings together key examples of Max Boisot's work into a single volume, setting these alongside original, extended commentaries andreflections by his academic collaborators. Structured under five core sections, it covers the main areas in which he forged new understandings: analyses of the Chinese system; organizational complexity; the strategic management of knowledge; knowledge in Big Science; and innovations in education. A further sectionincludes six reflective essays by Boisot's collaborators.The book will be invaluable to organization and management scholars, students, and intellectually curious practitioners.

I. Setting the stage; 1 Martin Ihrig and John Child: Max Boisot and the Dynamic Evolution of Knowledge; II. Analyses of the Chinese System; 2 Max Boisot and John Child: From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order; 3 John Child: Analysis of the Chinese System; III. Organizational Complexity; 4 Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey: Extreme Outcomes, Connectivity, and Power Laws: Towards an Econophysics of Organization; 5 Bill McKelvey: Reflecting on Max Boisot s Ashby Space Applied to Complexity Management; IV.NBThe Strategic Management of Knowledge; 6 Max Boisot: The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge; 7 Martin Ihrig and Ian MacMillan: The Strategic Management of Knowledge; V.NBKnowledge in Big Science; 8 Max Boisot: Generating Knowledge in a Connected World: The Case of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN; 9 Agusti Canals: Knowledge in Big Science; VI.NBInnovations in Education; 10 Max Boisot and Michel Fiol: Chinese Boxes and Learning Cubes: Action Learning in a Cross Cultural Context; 11 Dana Kaminstein and John Child: Innovations in Education; VII. Concluding Reflections; 12 Gordon Redding: The I-Space as a Key to History and to Culture; 13 JC Spender: The Three Phases of Max s Theorizing; 14 Marshall Meyer: Writing with Max Boisot; 15 Ron Sanchez: Remembering Max Boisot: Recollections of a Gifted Intellect at Work; 16 Markus Nordberg: I-Space and the Value of Basic Research; 17 Marzio Nessi: Boisot and the God Particle; 18 John Child and Martin Ihrig: Conclusion and Outlook