caa a22 4500 467921156 CHVBK 20180406152917.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10818-006-9004-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10818-006-9004-z Organizational versus Market Knowledge: From Concrete Embodiment to Abstract Representation [Elektronische Daten] [Max Boisot, Yan Li] Synopsis: In contrast to the neoclassical economic presumption in favor of markets, we argue that organizations, not markets should be taken as our default assumption. We do so on information processing grounds. We distinguish between Zen and market Knowledge. The first is embodied and hard to articulate and the second abstract-symbolic. In human evolution, the first type of knowledge came first, and, on any pragmatic definition of knowledge, it still incorporates most of what we mean by the term. We take codification and abstraction as the two data processing activities that lead to the articulation of knowledge into an abstract-symbolic form. We develop a conceptual framework, the Information-Space (I-Space) to show how far the articulation of knowledge leads to its being shared. Whereas an unlimited sharing of information and knowledge leads to market-oriented outcomes, a more limited sharing leads to organizational outcomes. A market-oriented economics has tended to look to physics for its models; the field of organization theory has tended to look to biology. A more organization-oriented economics would thus look more to biology for its models. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 knowledge management nationallicence transaction cost economics nationallicence codification nationallicence abstraction nationallicence Boisot Max University of Birmingham, c/o P.O.Box 144, 08870, Sitges (Barcelona), Spain aut Li Yan Department of Economics, George Mason University, MSN 3G4 University Drive, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA aut Journal of Bioeconomics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/3(2006-12-01), 219-251 1387-6996 8:3<219 2006 8 10818 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-006-9004-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-006-9004-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boisot Max University of Birmingham, c/o P.O.Box 144, 08870, Sitges (Barcelona), Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li Yan Department of Economics, George Mason University, MSN 3G4 University Drive, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Bioeconomics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/3(2006-12-01), 219-251 1387-6996 8:3<219 2006 8 10818 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer