Marc Idelson

Biography

Expertise summary 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. Teaching summary Rather than mere knowledge transfer, teaching in the field of management is understood as a reflexive opportunity for participants to develop a better grasp both of their imperfect perception of their surroundings and of their own values; by exploring and understanding one’s own values and filters, individually and within teams, one improves one’s grasp of one’s surroundings and of one’s counterparts, be it whilst managing others, being managed oneself, or negotiating in interpersonal dynamics as well as whilst designing new ventures or prospectively reshaping existing organisations. Business Ethics Consulting Skills Cross-Cultural Management Economics Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership 

Research Interest

Applied Epistemology, Knowledge Management Language, Culture and Organisations  Organisational Learning  Social Construction of Mathematics