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Setting the stage. Max Boisot and the dynamic evolution of knowledge / Martin Ihrig and John Child -- Analyses of the Chinese system. From fiefs to clans and network capitalism : explaining China's emerging economic order / Max Boisot and John Child ; Analyses of the Chinese system / John Child -- Organizational complexity. Extreme outcomes, connectivity, and power laws : towards an econophysics of organization / Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey ; Reflecting on Max Boisot's Ashby space applied to complexity management / Bill McKelvey -- The strategic management of knowledge. The creation and sharing of knowledge / Max Boisot ; The strategic management of knowledge / Martin Ihrig and Ian MacMillan -- Knowledge in big science. Generating knowledge in a connected world : the case of the ALTAS experiment at CERN / Max Boisot ; Knowledge in big science / Agustí Canals -- Innovations in education. Chinese boxes and learning cubes : action learning in a cross-cultural context / Max Boisot and Michel Fiol ; Innovations in education / Dana Kaminstein and John Child -- Concluding reflections. The I-space as a key to history and to culture / Gordon Redding ; The three phases of Max Boisot's theorizing / John-Christopher Spender ; Writing with Max Boisot / Marshall Meyer ; Remembering Max Boisot : recollections of a gifted intellect at work / Ron Sanchez ; I-space and the value of basic research / Markus Nordberg ; Boisot and the God particle / Marzio Nessi ; Conclusion and outlook / John Child and Martin Ihrig

This Vita Contemplativa has been written in recognition of Max Boisot, who died in 2011. It reflects on his work and its contributions to organization studies and beyond. Boisot created a knowledge-based lens for studying complex organizational phenomena. He argued that the ways in which agents process information have fundamental implications for our understanding of groups and organizations within the emerging knowledge society. He articulated this argument with a set of elegant conceptual frameworks that have been widely used by scholars and practitioners to address the dynamics of information, knowledge and learning and the organization of social and scientific activity. We provide an overview of Boisot's conceptual frameworks before reviewing the impact of his work in the organizational field, which included contemporary developments in China, the role of information in organizations, and more recently organizational complexity and the management of Big Science at CERN. Boisot's analysis opens up a number of avenues for further development, which are also discussed.