Max Boisot
Max Boisot is a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Birmingham. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Sol Snider Center, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MSc in Management from M.I.T. as well as a Doctorate in Technology Transfer from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London University. From 1984 to 1989 he was Dean and Director of the China-EC Management program, the first MBA programme to be run in the People's Republic of China in Beijing. The program has today evolved into the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Since 1994 he has set up the Euro-Arab Management School in Granada, Spain for the EU Commission.
He has carried out consultancy and training assignments for a number of other multi-national firms – BP Exploration, GEC-Alsthom, Thomson CFS, UBS, are the most recent ones - in the field of international management and technology strategy. His current research is being conducted in association with the Wharton Business School. It involves building a simulation model of knowledge flows within and between organisations.
In addition to his China experience, Max has taught in Japan, the US, Hong Kong, South Africa, the Middle East, Russia and France. He is the author of Information Space: a framework for analyzing learning in organizations, institutions and cultures (1995, Routledge) and Knowledge Assets: securing competitive advantage in the information economy (1998, Oxford University Press) which was awarded the Ansoff Prize for Strategy in 2000. His latest book is Explorations in Information-Space; Knowledge, Actors and Firms (2007, Oxford University Press). He has also published numerous research articles.
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