John Child is Emeritus Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the British Academy of Management. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy [FBA]. He has published 21 books and approximately 150 articles and book chapters. He has been editor-in-chief of Organization Studies and Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review. His current interests are in organizational design and how smaller firms internationalize.Martin Ihrig is President of I-Space Institute, LLC (USA) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is interested in the strategic and entrepreneurial management of knowledge and heads a research initiative that explores this topic at Wharton's Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center. In developing strategy tools for corporate and public-sector decision makers, he has worked with organizations such as BAE Systems (USA), The Boeing Company (USA), and Vale (Brazil). His research projects have been funded by The Economic & Social Research Council (UK), The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN (CH), and Tekes (Finland).

• I. SETTING THE STAGE ; 1. Max Boisot and the Dynamic Evolution of Knowledge ; II. ANALYSES OF THE CHINESE SYSTEM ; 2. From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order ; 3. Analysis of the Chinese System ; III. ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY ; 4. Extreme Outcomes, Connectivity, and Power Laws: Towards an Econophysics of Organization ; 5. Reflecting on Max Boisot s Ashby Space Applied to Complexity Management ; IV. THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE ; 6. The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge ; 7. The Strategic Management of Knowledge ; V. KNOWLEDGE IN BIG SCIENCE ; 8. Generating Knowledge in a Connected World: The Case of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN ; 9. Knowledge in Big Science ; VI. INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION ; 10. Chinese Boxes and Learning Cubes: Action Learning in a Cross Cultural Context ; 11. Innovations in Education ; VII. CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ; 12. The I-Space as a Key to History and to Culture ; 13. The Three Phases of Max s Theorizing ; 14. Writing with Max Boisot ; 15. Remembering Max Boisot: Recollections of a Gifted Intellect at Work ; 16. I-Space and the Value of Basic Research ; 17. Boisot and the God Particle ; 18. Conclusion and Outlook

Max Boisot was a deep thinker whose interest in knowledge enabled him to make important contributions to many areas: Chinese economic development, strategic management, innovation, and the organization of advanced science, to name but a few. In this volume, Child and Ihrig bring together Boisot's pathbreaking articles, and combine them with thoughtful appreciations by those who knew him best. The result is a worthy tribute to Boisot's legacy, and a wonderful way to introduce his thinking to a new generation of scholars.

John Child is Emeritus Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the British Academy of Management. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy [FBA]. He has published 21 books and approximately 150 articles and book chapters. He has been editor-in-chief of Organization Studies and Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review. His current interests are in organizational design and how smaller firms internationalize.Martin Ihrig is President of I-Space Institute, LLC (USA) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is interested in the strategic and entrepreneurial management of knowledge and heads a research initiative that explores this topic at Wharton's Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center. In developing strategy tools for corporate and public-sector decision makers, he has worked with organizations such as BAE Systems (USA), The Boeing Company (USA), and Vale (Brazil). His research projects have been funded by The Economic & Social Research Council (UK), The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN (CH), and Tekes (Finland).

• I. SETTING THE STAGE ; 1. Max Boisot and the Dynamic Evolution of Knowledge ; II. ANALYSES OF THE CHINESE SYSTEM ; 2. From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order ; 3. Analysis of the Chinese System ; III. ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY ; 4. Extreme Outcomes, Connectivity, and Power Laws: Towards an Econophysics of Organization ; 5. Reflecting on Max Boisot s Ashby Space Applied to Complexity Management ; IV. THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE ; 6. The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge ; 7. The Strategic Management of Knowledge ; V. KNOWLEDGE IN BIG SCIENCE ; 8. Generating Knowledge in a Connected World: The Case of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN ; 9. Knowledge in Big Science ; VI. INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION ; 10. Chinese Boxes and Learning Cubes: Action Learning in a Cross Cultural Context ; 11. Innovations in Education ; VII. CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ; 12. The I-Space as a Key to History and to Culture ; 13. The Three Phases of Max s Theorizing ; 14. Writing with Max Boisot ; 15. Remembering Max Boisot: Recollections of a Gifted Intellect at Work ; 16. I-Space and the Value of Basic Research ; 17. Boisot and the God Particle ; 18. Conclusion and Outlook

Max Boisot was a deep thinker whose interest in knowledge enabled him to make important contributions to many areas: Chinese economic development, strategic management, innovation, and the organization of advanced science, to name but a few. In this volume, Child and Ihrig bring together Boisot's pathbreaking articles, and combine them with thoughtful appreciations by those who knew him best. The result is a worthy tribute to Boisot's legacy, and a wonderful way to introduce his thinking to a new generation of scholars.

John Child is Emeritus Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the British Academy of Management. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy [FBA]. He has published 21 books and approximately 150 articles and book chapters. He has been editor-in-chief of Organization Studies and Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review. His current interests are in organizational design and how smaller firms internationalize.Martin Ihrig is President of I-Space Institute, LLC (USA) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is interested in the strategic and entrepreneurial management of knowledge and heads a research initiative that explores this topic at Wharton's Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center. In developing strategy tools for corporate and public-sector decision makers, he has worked with organizations such as BAE Systems (USA), The Boeing Company (USA), and Vale (Brazil). His research projects have been funded by The Economic & Social Research Council (UK), The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN (CH), and Tekes (Finland).

• I. SETTING THE STAGE ; 1. Max Boisot and the Dynamic Evolution of Knowledge ; II. ANALYSES OF THE CHINESE SYSTEM ; 2. From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order ; 3. Analysis of the Chinese System ; III. ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY ; 4. Extreme Outcomes, Connectivity, and Power Laws: Towards an Econophysics of Organization ; 5. Reflecting on Max Boisot s Ashby Space Applied to Complexity Management ; IV. THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE ; 6. The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge ; 7. The Strategic Management of Knowledge ; V. KNOWLEDGE IN BIG SCIENCE ; 8. Generating Knowledge in a Connected World: The Case of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN ; 9. Knowledge in Big Science ; VI. INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION ; 10. Chinese Boxes and Learning Cubes: Action Learning in a Cross Cultural Context ; 11. Innovations in Education ; VII. CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ; 12. The I-Space as a Key to History and to Culture ; 13. The Three Phases of Max s Theorizing ; 14. Writing with Max Boisot ; 15. Remembering Max Boisot: Recollections of a Gifted Intellect at Work ; 16. I-Space and the Value of Basic Research ; 17. Boisot and the God Particle ; 18. Conclusion and Outlook

Max Boisot was a deep thinker whose interest in knowledge enabled him to make important contributions to many areas: Chinese economic development, strategic management, innovation, and the organization of advanced science, to name but a few. In this volume, Child and Ihrig bring together Boisot's pathbreaking articles, and combine them with thoughtful appreciations by those who knew him best. The result is a worthy tribute to Boisot's legacy, and a wonderful way to introduce his thinking to a new generation of scholars.