• PhD in Technology Transfer, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London University.
• MSc Management MIT

BUSINESS SCHOOL GROUP

Procurement and Operations Management

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Max Boisot’s current research explores the relationship between organizational learning and knowledge management. He is building an agent-based simulation model that relates knowledge flows within and between organizations to the learning strategies of organizational players.

PROFILE

Max Boisot is Professor of Strategic Management at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and visiting scholar at the Snider Center for Entrepreneurial Research, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Between 1984 and 1989 he was dean and director of the China-Europe Management Program in Beijing. This has since evolved into the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Max Boisot has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, The Journal of Evolutionary Economics. His most recent book, Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy (Oxford University Press, 1998) was awarded the Ansoff Prize for the best book on strategy in 2000.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Max Boisot, Ian MacMillan, and Keyong Seok Han, Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Agents, and Organizations, 2007. Oxford University Press.

Chapters in Books

‘Competing and Collaborating in Networks: Is Organizing Just a Game?’, Max Boisot and Xiao hui Lu, Strategic Networks: Learning to Compete, Strategic Management Society Book Series. Gibbert, M., and Durand, T., (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 1405135859.

“A Socio/Computational Method for Staying Ahead of Terrorist and Other Adversities”, Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey, Corporate Strategies under International Terrorism and Adversity.  G. G. S. Suder, (ed.), pp.38-55. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2006. ISBN:1845422414.

“Speeding Up Strategic Foresight in a Dangerous and Complex World: A Complexity Approach.”, Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey, Corporate Strategies under International Terrorism and Adversity.  G. G. S. Suder, (ed.) pp. 20-37, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2006. ISBN:1845422414.

‘Exploring the Information Space: A Strategic Perspective on Information Systems’, Max Boisot, Handbook on the Knowledge Economy. D.Rooney, G.Hearn, and A.Nina (Eds), pp. 178-190. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005. ISBN: 1843767953.

"Sim I-Space: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Knowledge Management Processes", Max Boisot, Ian MacMillan, Han KS, Tan C, and Eun SH, Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce.  Kimbrough S.O. and Wu D.J. (eds), pp. 247-294. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2005. ISBN: 35402-14313.

“Real Options Reasoning and the Dynamic Organization: Strategic Insights from the Biological Analogy”, McGrath, R., and M. Boisot, Leading and Managing in the Dynamic Organization, Mannix Elizabeth and Randall Peterson (Eds.), LEA Publications, 2003. ISBN: 0805843620.

“The Structuring and Sharing of Knowledge”, Max Boisot, Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organization Knowledge, Chun Wei Choo and Nick Bontis (eds), pp.65-77. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-19-513866-X.

“Complexity and the I-Space”, Max Boisot, The Interaction of Complexity and Management, Michael Lissack, pp.63-71. Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 2002. ISBN: 15672-04279.

Academic Journal Article

‘Property Rights and Information Flows: A Simulation Approach’, Max Boisot, Ian MacMillan and Kyeong Seok Han, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 17, No. 1, February, pp.63-93. Springer, 2007. ISSN 0936-9937.

‘Moving to the edge of chaos: bureaucracy, IT and the challenge of complexity’, Max Boisot, Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 21. pp. 239-248. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006. ISSN: 0268-3962.

“Organizational versus Markets Knowledge: from Concrete Embodiment to Abstract Representation”. 8:219-51, Max Boisot and Yan Li, Journal of Bioeconomics, , Vol. 8, pp.219-251, Springer, 2006. ISSN 1387-6996.

‘Options Complexes: Going Beyond Real Options Reasoning’, Max Boisot and Rita McGrath, E:CO, 7, December, pp. 2-13, ISCE Publishing, Mansfield, Mass. USA, 2005. ISSN: 1521-3250.

‘Codification, Abstraction and Firm Differences: A Cognitive, Information-based Perspective’, Max Boisot and Yan Li, Journal of Bioeconomics, Vol. 7. pp.309-334, Springer, 2005. ISSN 1387-6996.

“Data, Information, and Knowledge: Have we Got It Right?,” M. Boisot and Agusti Canals, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 43 -67. Springer-Verlag, 2004. ISSN 0936-9937.

‘Crossing Epistemological Boundaries: Managerial and Entrepreneurial Approaches to Knowledge Management’, M.Boisot and Ian MacMillan, Long Range Planning, Vol. 37, pp, 505-524, Elsevier Ltd, 2004. ISSN 0024-6301.