An integrative semiotic framework for information systems: The social, personal and material worlds

Information and Organization

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-70

  Mingers, John ^a   Willcocks, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical realism; Critical theory; Embodiment; Information; Meaning; Philosophical foundations; Semiosis; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894063603     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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