Organizational Semiotics
Evolving a Science of Information Systems IFIP TC8 / WG8.1 Working Conference on Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems July 23–25, 2001, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Editors: Kecheng Liu, Clarke, R.J., Andersen, P.B., Stamper, R.K., Abou-Zeid, E.-S. (Eds.)
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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.
- Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Exploring the Explanatory Power of Actability
Pages 1-20
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Information and Knowledge Economies
Pages 21-40
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Data, Information, and Knowledge
Pages 41-50
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Organisations as Practice Systems
Pages 51-70
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Knowledge or Information
Pages 71-90
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Organizational Semiotics
- Book Subtitle
- Evolving a Science of Information Systems IFIP TC8 / WG8.1 Working Conference on Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems July 23–25, 2001, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Editors
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- Kecheng Liu
- Rodney J. Clarke
- Peter Bøgh Andersen
- Ronald K. Stamper
- El-Sayed Abou-Zeid
- Series Title
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
- Series Volume
- 94
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-387-35611-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-0-387-35611-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-7189-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4757-6111-5
- Series ISSN
- 1868-4238
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVI, 314
- Topics
