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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

Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 94)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Looking Inside

    • M. Cecília C. Baranauskas, Juliana Salles, Roberto S. Bigonha
    Pages 301-304
  2. Erratum to: Organizational Semiotics

    • Kecheng Liu, Rodney J. Clarke, Peter Bøgh Andersen, Ronald K. Stamper, El-Sayed Abou-Zeid
    Pages E1-E1
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 309-309

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Reading, UK

    Kecheng Liu

  • Department of Information Systems, University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, Australia

    Rodney J. Clarke

  • Department of Computer Science/Center for Human Machine Interaction, University of Aalborg, Denmark

    Peter Bøgh Andersen

  • University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Ronald K. Stamper

  • Staffordshire University, UK

    Ronald K. Stamper

  • Concordia University, Canada

    El-Sayed Abou-Zeid

Bibliographic Information

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

  • Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35611-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7189-8Published: 31 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-6111-5Published: 27 February 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-35611-2Published: 19 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4238

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-422X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 314

  • Topics: Computer Science, general, Business Strategy/Leadership, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Organization, Management

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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