ISBN:
9780230295025
,
0230295029
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (356 p.)
,
55 figures, 55.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Ausgabe:
Palgrave connect. Business & management collection
Paralleltitel:
Druckausg.
DDC:
303.48/33
Schlagwort(e):
Business communication & presentation
;
Organizational theory & behaviour
;
Business and Management
;
Business communication & presentation, bicssc
;
Organizational theory & behaviour, bicssc
;
Business and Management, ukslc
;
Business communication & presentation, thema
;
Organizational theory & behaviour, thema
;
Management & management techniques, thema
;
Information technology: general issues, thema
Kurzfassung:
The Nature of Significance Signs: Units of Significance Systems: Patterns of Order Sign Systems: Patterns of Significance Communication: The Medium is Not the Message Control: Remaining Viable Data: Form to Inform Data Systems: Patterns of Forma Information: In-form to Perform Information Systems: Patterns of Informa Activity: Performa Activity Systems: Patterns of Performa Organisation: Viable Patterns The Nature of Informatics
Kurzfassung:
Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate together in our work, home and leisure. The aim of this book is to explain how and why they are significant, What is information and why is it so important? How does information relate to language and communication? In what sense do animals and machines communicate? Are computers the only information technology? What is the value of information systems to organisations? This book considers the nature of significance and the way it is continually accomplished within activity, communication and representation. It argues that significance is generated at the intersection of signs and systems, which involves the enactment of forma (the substance of a sign), informa (the content of a sign) and performa (the use of signs in coordinated action). In demonstrating the value of this perspective the book employs the innovative approach of considering examples and cases from different times, cultures and species. This improves our understanding of the nature of information, information systems and information technology and the way these phenomena entangle in complex ways within human organisation
Kurzfassung:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9780230275195, 2010
DOI:
10.1057/9780230295025
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