Coordination and Communication Using Signs: Studies in Organisational Semiotics - Information and Organization Design Series 2002 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Selected papers of the workshop. Table of Contents: Contributors. Editor's Preface. Accommodating Natural Language Within The Organisational Semiotic Framework; J. Connolly. Means of Coordination; P. B. Andersen, et al. Intertextuality at Work: Large Scale Organisation of Workpractices; R. J. Clarke. Actability: a Way to Understand Information Systems Pragmatics; G. Goldkuhl, P. J. Agerfalk. Communication Quality in the Context of Information Systems and Business Processes; O. Eriksson. Greimas' Semiotics and the Analysis of Organisational Action; D. Robichaud. Considering the Standard: a Semiotic Model of Organisations; B. van Heusden, R. J. Jorna. Using Semiotic Framework to Study Social Consequences of IT; M. S. H. Heng. Implementing IT in Production Settings; S. Verjans. A Semiotic Approach to Improve the Design Quality of Agent-Based Information Systems; S. Chong, K. Liu. A Semiotics Approach to Analyzing the Information Bearing Capacity of a Data Schema; J. Feng. Index."Publisher Marketing: Organisational semiotics occupies an important niche in the research community of human communication and information systems. It opens up ways of understanding the functioning of information and information resources in organised behaviour. This text aims to bridge the gap between the technical and social aspects of information systems and information technology.