Organizational Semiotics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002 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 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 94

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.

Exploring the Explanatory Power of Actability.- Information and Knowledge Economies.- Data, Information, and Knowledge.- Organisations as Practice Systems.- Knowledge or Information.- Translation, Betrayal and Ambiguity in IS Development.- Integrating Information Systems.- User-System Interface Design.- Pervasive Computing and Space.- Systemic Functional Hypertexts (SFHT).- The Value of Information in the “E-age”.- Semiosis, Information and Knowledge.- Dividing Businesses into Processes.- A Semiotic Approach to Quality in Requirements Specifications.- The Institutional Context of Information.- Seven Rules for Applying Language/Action Perspective and Organizational Semiotics Successfully.- Towards a Semiotic Communications Quality Model.- Semiotics and Intelligent Control.- Striking the Right Tone.- Looking Inside.- Levels of Abstraction in Maritime Maneuvering Operations.- Keywords Index.