Organizational Semiotics

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.