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Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems

By Pär J. Ågerfalk , Peter Bøgh Andersen , Kecheng Liu , Ronald K. Stamper , Fredrik Karlsson , Anders Hjalmarsson (auth.) , Rodney J. Clarke , El-Sayed Abou-Zeid (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2002
ISBN
978-1-4757-6111-5, 978-0-387-35611-2
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-35611-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37273294 bytes)
Series
IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing 94
Edition
1
Pages
310\327
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Management of Computing and Information Systems; O

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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