Organizational Semiotics : Evolving a Science of Information Systems /

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; -Properti...

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Main Author: Liu, Kecheng
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Clarke, Rodney J., Andersen, Peter Bøgh, Stamper, Ronald K., Abou-Zeid, El-Sayed
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
Series:IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing ; 94.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 309 pages)
ISBN:9780387356112 (electronic bk.)
0387356118 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1868-4238 ;