Dynamics and Change in Organizations: Studies in Organizational Semiotics - Tapa dura

Reseña del editor

Organizational 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 behaviour. In recent years, a numberof workshops and conferences have provided researchers and practitioners opportunities to discuss their theories, methods and practices and to assess the benefits and potential of this approach. Literature in this field is much in demand but still difficult to find, so we are pleased to offer a third volume in the miniseries of Studies in Organizational Semiotics. This book is based on the papers and discussions of the fifth workshop on Organizational Semiotics held in Delft, June 13-15, 2002, hosted by Groningen University and Delft Technical University in the Netherlands. The topic of this workshop was the dynamics and change in organizations. The chapters in this book reflect recent developments in theory and applications and demonstrate the significance of Organizational Semiotics to information systems, human communication and coordination, organizational analysis and modelling. In particular, it provides a framework that accommodates both the technical and social aspects of information systems. The mini-series presents the frontier of the research in this area and shows how the theory and techniques enhance the quality of work on information systems.

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The main topic of this book is the Dynamics and Change in Organizations. An organization is seen as a group of people that do not only share rules of language, customs, and habits, but also participate in the social construction of these rules. Organizational changes and dynamics are characterized by

-Problem solving within the context of bounded rationality, and propagation of adaptive patterns of behaviour in evolutionary time;
-Communication, existing of the exchange of object signs and norm signs, leading to the perturbation of self-organizing psychic and social systems;
-Creation and annihilation of social affordances (social constructs) and the norms attached to them;
-Actions, for instance communicative actions, and the creation of information systems and other artefacts;
-Creation, change, conversion and transfer of knowledge.