Virtual, Distributed and Flexible Organisations: Studies in Organisational Semiotics

ISBN-13: 9781402021619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 312 str.

Kecheng Liu; Kecheng Liu

Opis

Offers an approach to analysing organisations and modelling organisational behaviour. This book features methods and techniques that enable us to study the organisation by examining how information is created and used for communication, coordination and performance of actions towards organisational objectives.

Spis treści

Semiotics, Compassion and Value-Centered Design.- Semionics: A Proposal for the Semiotic Modelling of Organisations.- Anticipated Activities.- Launching Organisational Semiotics in the Real World: How to Prepare for It?.- What is in a Commitment?.- Information System Design as a Persistent Multi-Viewpoints Requirements Elicitation Process.- Organisational Learning in Complex Environments.- The Assurance Paradigm.- Social Constructs and Boundedly Rational Actors.- E-Business Model in PC Manufacture:.- Considering Norms and Signs within an Information Source-Bearer-Receiver (S-B-R) Framework.- Facilitating Useful Object-Orientation for Virtual Ebusiness Organisations Through Semiotics.- A Semiotic Model of User-Interface Metaphor.- The Semiotics of User Interfaces.- Interface Design for the Changing Organisation.- Designing Space Systems in Multi-Viewpoints Semiotics.- On the Semiotic Analysis of International Communication Over Computer Networks.- A Semiotic Insight Into Model Mapping.- Identifying Business Process Patterns Using Semantic Analysis.- Aiding Semiotic Analysis Using Natural Language Processing Tools.- Improving the Feedback to Candidates of Multiple Choice Tests.