Max Boisot is Professor of Strategic Management at the Birmingham Business School (BBS), the University of Birmingham. Associate Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, and visiting scholar at the Sol Snider Center, the Wharton School, the 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 program 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.
Max Boisot has carried out consultancy and training assignments for a number of multinational firms – Shell, BP Exploration, Dubai World, Royal Bank of Scotland, 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 at the Wharton school. This research involves building a simulation model of knowledge flows within and between organizations.
In addition to his China experience, Max Boisot 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). He was awarded the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2000 for the latter book. Boisot has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, The Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
Max Boisot has carried out consultancy and training assignments for a number of multinational firms – Shell, BP Exploration, Dubai World, Royal Bank of Scotland, 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 at the Wharton school. This research involves building a simulation model of knowledge flows within and between organizations.
In addition to his China experience, Max Boisot 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). He was awarded the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2000 for the latter book. Boisot has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, The Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
