Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy
`this is a most original and thought-provoking analysis of the factors which create value and promote organisational viability in the knowledge economy.  I recommend it heartily.' Blaise Cronin, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 57, No. 2Don't judge this book by its phosphorescent cover or cookie-cutter title.  What may seem like yet another voguish volume dealing with knowledge management is, in fact, a fiercely intelligent treatise which seeks to lay out the foundations for a political economy of information.  Max Boisot is a gifted scholar, ... extremely widely read, well-informed and blessed with an unusual ability to theorise intelligibly for a wide audience. ... He doesn't just make arguments; he crafts them with the sensitivity of a true artisan, layering and linking a latticework of ideas. Knowledge assets is a serious book which warrants close reading because of the tightly coiled thesis.  It is neither pretentious nor condescending.  Boisot, an economist, writes with lucidity and not without humour.