Max Boisot: Quotes about knowledge

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“Knowledge is a property of agents predisposing them to act in particular circumstances.”

Max Boisot

Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 12

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“Knowledge management often generates theories that are too general or abstract to be easily testable. In some cases, simulation modeling can help. [WE have developed] an agent-based simulation model derived from a conceptual framework, the Information Space or I-Space and use it to explore the differences between a neoclassical and a Schumpeterian information environment.”

Max Boisot

Boisot, M. H., Canals, A., & MacMillan, I. (2004). " Simulating I-Space (SIS): An agent-based approach to modeling knowledge flows http://entrepreneurship.wharton.upenn.edu/research/simispace3_200405.pdf." Working papers of the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Knowledge , Help

“Failure to properly conceptualize the nature of knowledge assets condemns firms.”

Max Boisot

Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 2

Failure , Nature , Knowledge

“It makes sense to describe a core competence as a complex adaptive system, located in the lower regions of the I-Space between an ordered regime in which knowledge assets get frozen into technologies and a chaotic regime in which the stability necessary for effective organizational coordination and integration remains absent. Core competences, then, have their being in a region of the I-Space sandwiched between an excess of usable structure and a total lack of it. We hypothesize that the possession of a core competence is one measure of a firm’s ability to deal with complexity.”

Max Boisot

Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 205

Knowledge , Sense

“Data is discrimination between physical states of things (black, white, etc.) that may convey or not convey information to an agent. Whether it does so or not depends on the agent's prior stock of knowledge.”

Max Boisot

Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 12

Knowledge , Dependency

“[Knowledge assets are] stocks of knowledge through which different value added services flow.”

Max Boisot

Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 3.; as cited in: Evans, M. M., and Natasha Ali. "Bridging knowledge management life cycle theory and practice." 2013.

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