Organisational Responsiveness Through Signs

Organisational Semiotics is a discipline that studies signs of organisations, and how these signs aid an analysis and design of technical information systems. The responsiveness of organisations has been discussed as a key feature to adapt the organisational behaviour in turbulent environments, but there are not studies about the implication of these capabilities on Information Systems. Organisational Semiotics can be used as a good approach to understand relationships between living things and organisations in order to develop their responses to the organisation. The purpose of this paper is the proposition of a preliminary model of organisations as living systems, using the concept of organisations as information systems. This paper articulates the information interactions between the border of the system, the environment and the activities of the organisation that maintain this border by methods of organisational semiotics. The future study will focus on the implementation of the proposed framework.

组织符号学是一门研究组织符号以及这些符号如何辅助技术信息系统分析与设计的学科。组织的响应能力作为在动荡环境中调整组织行为的一个关键特征已被讨论，但关于这些能力对信息系统的影响尚无研究。组织符号学可作为一种良好的方法来理解生物与组织之间的关系，以便培养它们对组织的响应。本文的目的是利用组织即信息系统的概念，提出一个作为生命系统的组织的初步模型。本文通过组织符号学的方法阐述了系统边界、环境以及维持该边界的组织活动之间的信息交互。未来的研究将侧重于所提出框架的实施。