Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Actor, and Firms

by Ian C. MacMillan, Kyeong Seok Han, Max H. Boisot

Book Overview

With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is increasingly seen to reside in the former - that is, in intangible assets - rather than in the latter. Yet we keep wanting to turn knowledge back into something tangible, something with definite boundaries which can be measured, manipulated, appropriated, and traded. In short, we want to reify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199250871
• ISBN13: 9780199250875
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"