Virtual, Distributed and Flexible Organisations [electronic resource] : Studies in Organisational Semiotics / edited by Kecheng Liu.

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.

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.