Virtual, Distributed and Flexible Organisations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Organisational Behaviour

   1. Semiotics, Compassion and Value-Centered Design

      • Joseph A Goguen

      Pages 3-14

   2. Semionics: A Proposal for the Semiotic Modelling of Organisations

      • Ricardo R. Gudwin

      Pages 15-33

   3. Anticipated Activities

      • Peter Bøgh Andersen

      Pages 35-59

   4. Launching Organisational Semiotics in the Real World: How to Prepare for It?

      • Carlos Alberto Cocozza Simoni, Maria Cecília Calani Baranaukas

      Pages 61-82

   5. What is in a Commitment?

      • Joaquim Filipe

      Pages 83-102

   6. Information System Design as a Persistent Multi-Viewpoints Requirements Elicitation Process

      • Pierre-Jean Charrel

      Pages 103-118

   7. Organisational Learning in Complex Environments

      • Elena Revilla, José Sánchez-Alarcos

      Pages 119-127

   8. The Assurance Paradigm

      • Hart Will, Darren Whobrey

      Pages 129-152

   9. Social Constructs and Boundedly Rational Actors

      • Martin Helmhout, Henk W. M. Gazendam, René J. Jorna

      Pages 153-179

   10. E-Business Model in PC Manufacture:

       • Rusdy Hartung, Oscar Mangisengi, Abraham K. Lomi

       Pages 181-182

   11. Considering Norms and Signs within an Information Source-Bearer-Receiver (S-B-R) Framework

       • Wei Hu, Junkang Feng

       Pages 183-184

   12. Facilitating Useful Object-Orientation for Virtual Ebusiness Organisations Through Semiotics

       • Simon Polovina, Duncan Strang

       Pages 185-186

3. Systems Interface

   1. A Semiotic Model of User-Interface Metaphor

      • Pippin Barr, Robert Biddle, James Noble

      Pages 189-215

   2. The Semiotics of User Interfaces

      • Jonas Sjöström, Göran Goldkuhl

      Pages 217-236

   3. Interface Design for the Changing Organisation

      • Rodrigo Bonacin, M. Cecili, C. Baranauskas, Kecheng Liu

      Pages 237-255

4. Communication and Action

   1. Designing Space Systems in Multi-Viewpoints Semiotics

      • Daniel Galarreta

      Pages 259-275

   2. On the Semiotic Analysis of International Communication Over Computer Networks

      • John H. Connolly, Iain W. Phillips

      Pages 277-291

   3. A Semiotic Insight Into Model Mapping

      • Hongwei Xu, Junkang Feng

      Pages 293-302

   4. Identifying Business Process Patterns Using Semantic Analysis

      • Boris Shishkov, Zhiwu Xie, Kecheng Liu, Jan L. G. Dietz

      Pages 303-305

Organisational Semiotics offers an effective approach to analysing organisations and modelling organisational behaviour. The methods and techniques derived from Organisational Semiotics enable us to study the organisation by examining how information is created and used for communication, coordination and performance of actions towards organisational objectives. The latest development of the young discipline and its applications have been reported in this book, which provides a useful guide and a valuable reference to anyone working in the areas of organisational study and information systems development.

• Analysis
• Feedback
• Processing
• business
• communication
• computer
• information system
• learning
• modeling
• organization
• proving
• tools

• The University of Reading, Reading, UK

  Kecheng Liu

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