What does it mean to say that an institution knows, remembers, interprets or makes judgements when no single individual possesses everything the institution appears capable of knowing? The Thinking Institution, the first volume of the Institutional Cognition Series, begins with this deceptively simple question and develops a progressive exploration of how knowledge, memory, interpretation and judgement can become distributed across people, procedures, representations and technologies while remaining available beyond the individuals who participate in them at any particular moment.
Through this journey, the book introduces the foundations of Institutional Cognition, the scientific framework developed by the IDHUS Institute for studying how cognitive processes can become organised into persistent collective capabilities. Moving from distributed knowledge and institutional memory to collective cognition, cognitive architecture and Institutional Intelligence, The Thinking Institution invites readers to see institutions from a different perspective: not merely as formal structures or collections of individuals, but as complex systems in which the organisation of knowing itself can become an object of scientific inquiry.
Autor: David González
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: 15,24 x 22,86 cm, 536 páginas
ISBN: 978-84-126269-0-2
Primera edición: Noviembre 2025
