Information Space—A Framework for Understanding Organizations, Systems, and Culture

Author: Max H. Boisot
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: This book attempts to establish a new paradigm of information political economy based on a critique of neoclassical economics. The author constructs a framework of the information space and discusses the transformations of organizations, institutions, and culture under the influence of information and its communication technologies within this framework. Using examples of modernization processes in countries such as China, the author illustrates the effectiveness of the information space theory as an explanatory framework. This book will help us form a fresh understanding of the information age.