Organisational Semiotics occupies an important niche in the research
community of human communication and information systems. It opens up
new ways of understanding the functioning of information and information
resources in organised behavior.
Coordination And Communication Using Signs: Studies in Organisational
Semiotics is a cutting-edge volume that bridges the gap between the
technical and social aspects of information systems and information
technology. The chapters in the book are divided into two major
sections. The first section deals with Communication and Pragmatics, and
Organisational Systems. In this section the following topics are
examined:
- the semiotic framework and natural language;
- coordination and communication using natural language and other
artifacts in a real-life setting;
- substantive-level issues of information systems and business processes
from several theoretical perspectives;
- language as action;
- communication quality in the context of systems and business
processes;
- organisational action and Greimas' semiotics.
Section Two concentrates on organisational systems, which may or may not
include a computer system as a component and examines the following
topics:
- semiotic strategies and semiotic models of organisational structures;
- the impact of information technology with instructive case studies;
- the impact of information technology with a particular focus on
sense-making in the work floor context;
- the design of computer information systems;
- improving the design quality of agent-based information systems;
- the design of information systems, in terms of capacity, and data
scheme.
All the chapters in the volume have been submitted to a review process
of discussants and peer reviews.
