Organisational semiotics

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Organisational semiotics examines the nature, characteristics and features of information, and studies how information can be best used in the context of organised activities and business domains. Organisational semiotics treats organisations as information systems in which information is created, processed, distributed, stored and used. As an emergent discipline, it benefits from the research of semiotics in various schools, and further develops its theoretical frameworks, methods and techniques for understanding, analysing, modelling, designing and implementing of information systems.

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Featured as an interdisciplinary undertaking, researchers working in the community of organisational semiotics come from different backgrounds and work together on the theoretical and practical issues relating to organisational and technical problems. From the first international meeting on organisational semiotics in 1995, the community aims to develop the subject into a science of information systems, as claimed at the IFIP 8.1 Working Conference.^[1]

Beynon-Davies in his text on organisational informatics ^[2] considers information in terms of the concept of a sign. This consideration builds upon the work of Ronald Stamper and his distinction between four inter-dependent levels from which a sign may be considered: pragmatics, semantics, syntactics and empirics.

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• Informatics
• Information Systems
• Information management

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• Organisational semiotics at the University of Reading