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Managing Information in Complex Organizations: Semiotics and Signals, Complexity and Chaos - Softcover

Desouza, Kevin C.; Hensgen, Tobin

 
9780765613615: Managing Information in Complex Organizations: Semiotics and Signals, Complexity and Chaos
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0765613611 ISBN 13: 9780765613615
Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

This seminal work presents an effective design for processing information through five stages from data to actionable knowledge in order to influence behavior within organizations. The authors incorporate such concepts as evolution, semiotics, entropy, complexity, emergence, crisis, and chaos theory in an intriguing alternative to crisis management that can be applied to any organization. Their model shows how to evaluate and share information to enable the organization to avoid disaster rather than simply respond to it. Additionally, the text presents the first attempt at a multi-disciplinary view of information processing in organizations by tying associated disciplines to their respective impacts on the information process. Illustrations used in the text include an overlay that demonstrates how the non-use of information between agencies contributed to the 9/11 disaster, and an appendix addresses Organizing for Cyberterrorism.

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About the Author

Kevin C. Desouza, Tobin Hensgen

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0765613611
ISBN 13 
9780765613615
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264