MAX HENRI BOISOT -
CURRICULUM VITAE
1966 BA in Architecture, University of Cambridge, England
1968 Architectural Diploma, University of Cambridge, England
1971 Master of City Planning, U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
1971 Master of Science in Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1973 MA, University of Cambridge
1982 Ph.D., Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, Department of Social and Economic Studies
1983 Diploma of Imperial
College, University of London
1971-72 General Manager, Ideal Building
Corporation (Europe), European House building subsidiary of Trafalgar House
Investment Ltd.
1972-75 Founding partner
of the Boisot Waters Cohen Partnership, an architectural and planning firm
based in London.
1975-78 Consulting
activities for Petrus Management Services Ltd. on project appraisal and
architectural design in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, France.
1979-81 Research
Associate, the Euro-Asia Centre, INSEAD
1981 Visiting Professor,
Institute for International Studies and Training, Fujinomiya, Japan
1981-86 Associate
Professor, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris (part-time between 1984 and
1986), teaching International Business, Business Policy, and Organisational
Theory.
1981-86 Visiting
Professor, University of Paris-Dauphine, teaching two doctoralseminars per
year.
1982 Visiting Professor,
College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii.
1984-88 Director and
Dean, CHINA-EEC Management Programme (CEMP). This is a five-year programme (the
first in the PRC) financed by the EEC and run in the Training Centre for
Economic Cadres of the State Economic Commission in Beijing, China. The
programme was conceived, negotiated and set up by Max Boisot on behalf of the
EEC Commission between 1981 and 1984 when he was aksed to take over its overall
direction in Beijing. The Programme has since evolved into the China-Europe
International Business School (CEIBS), located in Shanghai
1989 Director of Executive
Programmes - China-EEC Management Institute Beijing - resigned June 1989.
1989-90 Senior Research
Fellow, Ashridge Management Research Group,Ashridge Management College, UK.
1989-90 Visiting
Professor - Aston Business School, Aston University, UK
1989-90 Visiting
Professor - ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
1989-90 Visiting
Professor - University of Hong Kong Business School, Hong Kong
1991 Professor - ESADE,
Barcelona, Spain (Current Position)
1991 Visitor - The Judge
Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge
1992 Senior Associate - The
Judge Institute of Management Studies University of Cambridge
1993 Citicorp Visiting
Professor, Hong Kong University Business School, Hong Kong University
1993 Visiting Fellow, The
Management School, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
University
1994-1995 Team Leader:
Design and Implementation of a Euro-Arab Management School for the European
Union in the City of Granada, Spain
1995 Academic Coordinator. Master
of Management Development Programme. The Euro-Arab Management School, Granada,
Spain
1996 Poh Seng Yeoh Research
Fellow at the Sol Snider Entrepreneurial Center, The Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania
1998 Associate and Academic
Advisor, The Chinese Management Centre, Hong Kong University
Max Boisot has acted as consultant to the World Bank in China and
Vietnam, to the UNDP in Albania, to the EC Commission in South East Asia, to
the European Foundation for Management Development in Eastern Europe, the
C.I.S., in the Middle East, and to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Irak.
He has also acted as a consultant and external lecturer for Major European
firms such as British Petroleum, Thomson CFS, Saint-Gobain,Valeo, Union des
Banques Suisse, The Trustees Savings Bank, Olivetti and Courtaulds.
Member of
Steering Committee Euro-China Association for Management (1984-1988)
Council member. Association for Management Education and Development
(1989-1995)
Member of the Advisory Board, International Programmes Unit, European
Foundation for Management Development
Member of the Editorial Board of Organization Studies
Member of the Strategic Management Society
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
Member of the European Group for organization Studies (EGOS)
Books
1987 Information
and Organization: The Manager as Anthropologist. London: Collins 1993 (Editor) East-West Collaboration: the
Challenge of Governance in Post-Socialist Enterprises, London: Routledge
1995 Information Space: A
Framework for Learning in Organizations Institutions and Cultures, London:
Routledge
1998 Knowledge Assets: Securing
Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy, Oxford: Oxford University
Press
Articles and Contributions to Books
1982 "Strategic
Management", Cahier Enseignement et Gestion 22, nouvelle serie, Summer.
1982 "The Codification and
Diffusion of Knowledge in the Transactional Strategy of Firms", Keio
Economic Studies Vol. XIX nē 1.
1982 "The Shaping of
Technological Strategy: European Chemical Firms in South-East Asia",
Management International Review, Vol. 2, Nē 3.
1983 "Convergence
Revisited: The Codification and Diffusion of Knowledge in a British and
Japanese Firm", Journal of Management Studies, Vol.20, Nē 2.
1983 "Intangible Fctors in
Japanese Corporate Strategy" Atlantic Paper Nē 50, Atlantic Institute for
International Affairs.
1986 "Markets and
Hierarchies in Cultural Perspective", Organisation Studies, Vol. 7, Issue
2, pp. 135-158
1986 "Industrial Policy
and Industrial Culture: The Case of European Petro-chemical Industry", in
K. Macharzina and W.H. Stachle (eds.) European Approches to International
Management. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
1986 "Action Learning with
Chinese Characteristics: The China-EEC Management Programme", Management
Education and Development, Vol. 17, Pt. 2
1986 "Managing with
Chinese Characteristics: Socialist Enterprise in a Period of Reform",
European Management Journal, Vol. 4, Nē 3, Autumn.
1987 "Management Training
in the PRC: The Task Ahead", Euro-Asia Business Review, Vol. 6, Nē 2.
1987 "Industrial Feudalism
and Enterprise Reform: Could China use some more bureaucracy?", In M.
Warner (ed.) China's Management Reform.London: Frances Pinter
1987 (with M. Fiol)
"Chinese Boxes and Learning Cubes: Action Learning in a Cross-Cultural
Context", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 6, Nē 2.
1987 "Managing Development
in a Turbulent Environment - the Chinese Experience", Issues, Vol. 3, Nē
3.
1987 "The Distribution
Joint Venture: a New Concept for the China Market", China Industrial
Economics Research, Nē 4, July
1988 (with John Child)
"The Iron Law of Fiefs: Bureacratic Failure and the Problem of Governance
in the Chinese Economic Reforms" in Administrative Science Quarterly. 33,
507-27.
1989 "The Long March
Towards Bureacratic Rationality: Current issues in the Chinese Systems
Reforms", The Pacific Review, Spring.
1990 "Territorial
Strategies in a competitive world: The emerging challenge to regional
authorities" European Management Journal, volume 8, Nē 3 September.
1990 (with John Child)
"Efficiency, ideology, and tradition in the choice of transactions governance
structures. The case of China as a modernizing society" in S. Clegg and G.
Redding (EDS) Capitalism in contrasting cultures, New York: De Gruyter and Co.
1992 (with Guo Liang Xing)
"The nature of managerial work in the Chinese enterprise reforms a Study
of Six Directors", Organization Studies, 13, issue 2, Spring, pp. 161-184
1992 "Schumpeterian
Learning Versus Neoclassical Learning: Development options for Post Communist
Societies" in Birley, S., and I.C. Macmillan (Eds.) International
Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Research, Amsterdam: North-Holland.
1992 "Sportis: Challenge
and Response in Post-Communist Poland" in J. Hendry and T. Eccles (Eds.) European
Cases in Strategic Management, London: Chapman and Hall.
1993 "The revolution from
outside: Spanish management and the challenge of modernization" in D.
Hickson (ED.) Management in Western Europe: Society, Culture and Organization
in Twelve Nations, New York: De Gruyter.
1993 "Is a Diamond a
Region's Best Friend? Towards an Analysis of Interregional Competition" in
J. Child, M. Crozier, R. Mayntz (Eds.) Societal Change Between Market and
Organization, Aldershot: Avebury.
1993 "The Lessons from
China" in Max Boisot (Ed) East-West Business Collaboration : The Challenge
of Governance in Post-Socialist Enterprises, London: Routledge
1993 With Manuel Vallejo,
"Tianjin Nutrexpa Food Company" in Max Boisot (Ed)East-West
Collaboration: the Challenge of Governance in Post-Socialist Enterprises,
London: Routledge
1994 "Information,
Economics, and Evolution: What Scope for a Menage a Trois? World Futures: The
Journal of General Evolution, Vol. 41 pp. 227-256
1994 "Learning as Creative
Destruction: The Challenge for Eastern Europe" in R. Boot, J. Lawrence, J.
Morris (Eds.) Managing the Unknown by Creating New Futures, London: McGraw-Hill
1995 "Preparing for
Turbulence: The Changing Relationship between Strategy and Management
Development in the Learning Organization" in B. Garratt (Ed.)Developing
Strategic Thought, London: McGraw-Hill
1995 "Is your firm a
Creative Destroyer? Competitive learning and Knowledge Flows in the
Technological Strategies of Firms", Research Policy Vol, 24, Nē 4, pp.
489-506
1996 With J. Child, "The
Institutional Nature of China's Emerging Economic Order", in D.H. Brown
and R. Porter (Eds) Management Issues in China: Domestic Enterprises, London:
Routledge, pp. 35-58
1996 With T. Lemmon, D.
Griffiths and V. Mole, "Spinning a Good Yarn: the Identification of Core
Competences at Courtaulds", International Journal of Technology Management,
Volume II, Nē 3/4, pp. 425-440
1996 With J. Child, "From
Fiefs to Clans: Explaining China's Emergent Economic Order",
Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 41, pp. 600-628
1996 "Institutionalizing
the Labour Theory of Value: Some Obstacles to the Reform of State-Owned
Enterprises in China and Vietnam", Organization Studies, 17/6, pp. 909-928
1997 With Dorothy Griffiths and
Veronica Mole, "The Dilema of Competence: Differentiation versus
Integration in the Pursuit of Learning" in R. Sanchez and A. Heene, (Eds)
Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management, Chichester, Sussex: John Wiley and
Son
1998 With Dorothy Griffiths and
Veronica Mole, ¨'Strategies for managing knowledge assets: a tale of two
companies'.Techovation, 18 (8/9), 1998, pp.529-539
1999 With Benita Cox, The
I-Space: a Framework for analyzing the evolution of social computing. To be
published in Technovation.
1999 With John Child,
Organizations aas adaptative Systems in Complex Environments: The Case of
China, Organization Science, fothcoming
English mother tongue
French fluent
Italian manageable
Spanish manageable