In recent decades an extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for or
Information, Organisation and Technology: Studies in Organisational Semiotics
β Scribed by Henk W. M. Gazendam (auth.), Kecheng Liu, Rodney J. Clarke, Peter BΓΈgh Andersen, Ronald K. Stamper (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 357
- Series
- Information and Organisation Design Series 1
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Organisational semiotics is a discipline that is concerned with the interrelationships between individuals and groups, and between humans and technology, functioning in organisations and society. Organisational semiotics opens up the prospect of theory-building and the development of new methods and techniques to gain insights into organised behaviour and enacted social practices, in the presence and absence of various technologies. It shares common interests with many other approaches to information and organisations, such as computer science, computational semiotics, organisational engineering, and language action perspective. The common vision shared by these approaches is to treat organisations and related information systems and technologies within a unified semiotic framework, with particular reference to the huge range of issues that elude many traditional disciplines. The analysis and design of information systems develops methods for solving the practical problems but offers no rigorous, theoretical foundation for them or how information functions within and between organisations. The semiotic perspective accommodates the individual and the social, the human and the technical, intra- and inter-organisational interactions, at a level of detail that is required in the study, modelling, design, and engineering of new and alternative organisational and technical systems. This perspective is outlined in the chapter presentations of Information, Organisation andTechnology.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Semiotics, Virtual Organisations, and Information Systems....Pages 1-48
Unintended Uses of IS/IT Strategy Planning from an Organizational Semiotics perspective....Pages 49-65
Creating the organisation through performance measurements....Pages 67-82
Toward a semiotic theory of cognitive dynamics in organisations....Pages 83-113
Organisational Semiotics: Informatics without the Computer?....Pages 115-171
A Semiotic Approach for Distinguishing Responsibilities in Agent-Based Systems....Pages 173-186
A Semiotic Approach to Organisational Role Modelling for Intelligent Agents....Pages 187-211
Combining the DEMO Methodology with Semiotic Methods in Business Process Modeling....Pages 213-246
Towards a Systemic Semiotic Approach to Multimedia Interface Design....Pages 247-270
Instrument Semiotics....Pages 271-298
Tearing Up Interfaces....Pages 299-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-351
β¦ Subjects
Organization/Planning; Management/Business for Professionals
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