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  • © 1990

Understanding Information

An Introduction

Part of the book series: Information Systems Series (INSYS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 1-9
  3. Semiotics and Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 10-10
    2. Introduction to semiotics

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 11-19
    3. Pragmatics

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 20-36
    4. Semantics

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 37-54
    5. Syntactics

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 55-66
    6. Empirics

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 67-78
  4. Information and Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Computer systems and information systems

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 80-93
    3. Formal systems

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 94-103
    4. Informal systems

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 104-114
    5. The primacy of social organization

      • Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse
      Pages 115-122
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 123-125

About this book

...gives insight into the way in which information, and its creation out of data, are at the core of organizational life.' Peter Checkland, European Journal of Information Systems

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics, UK

    Jonathan Liebenau, James Backhouse

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