Organizational Semiotics
Subtitle: Evolving a Science of Information Systems
By: edited by Kecheng Liu, Rodney J. Clarke, Peter Bøgh Andersen, Ronald K. Stamper, El-Sayed Abou-Zeid
Contributors: Clarke, Rodney J.; Andersen, Peter Bøgh; Stamper, Ronald K.; Abou-Zeid, El-Sayed
Series: IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing -- 94; IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing -- 94
Publisher: Springer US
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781475761115; 9780387356112
Subjects: Business planning; Industrial management; Information Systems; Computer science
Description: Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems covers such issues as: -Fundamental concepts such as 'information', 'data', 'message', 'communication', 'knowledge', 'organization', 'system' and so on; -Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce; -'Architecture' of organizations when they are viewed as information systems, based on their semiotics features; -Understanding language in organizational contexts, for example, the limitations on the language used to conduct business affairs; -The empirical study of communications for requirements elicitation; -Applying semiotic categories (e.g. physical, empiric, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, social) to various problems; -Organizational knowledge representation; -Business process re-engineering methods and the design of e-commerce systems.
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