IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology: 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

Kecheng Liu; Clarke, Rodney J.; Andersen, Peter Bøgh; Stamper, Ronald K.; Abou-Zeid, El-Sayed

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2002-08-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781402071898

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35611-2

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 314