Marc Idelson
Assistant Professor
Entrepreneurship,
The University of Nottingham
China
Biography
Viewing organisations as vessels of imperfectly shared knowledge, knowledge as dialectically formal and tacit and as semiotically and experientially embedded, and the formalisation of knowledge as a codified idealisation of experience, primary research focuses on semiotic contrasts, from a social networks perspective, between national, occupational and organisational cultures. Acknowledging mathematics as a social construction, an observation often ignored in practice by social scientists, ancillary research aims to introduce a phenomenologically grounded mathematics corpus to social science.
Research Interest
semiotic contrasts, from a social networks perspective, between national, occupational and organisational cultures.
Publications
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Guest Editor (15 papers): Special Issue on Leadership, 2009, HEC Paris Business Review, Beijing (in Chinese).
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Undo the Math! How semiotic gaps warp thinking (with a foreword by Eric Abrahamson, Columbia Business School), 2012, L’Harmattan, Paris.
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Freeing Entities of Attributes: Revisiting Database Normal Forms from an Organizational Knowledge Perspective (with Christophe Dany, OWI Technologies), 2014, IEEE Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, Singapore.
