Modelling offices through discourse analysis: the SAMPO approach
The Computer Journal - Special issue on models and architectures
The productivity paradox of information technology
Communications of the ACM
Can computer science solve organizational problems?: the case for organizational
Computerization and controversy (2nd ed.)
Beyond the productivity paradox
Communications of the ACM
Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
Language/Action Meets Organisational Semiotics: Situating Conversations with Norms
Information Systems Frontiers
The deep structure of business processes
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
The language-action perspective as a basis for communication support systems
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
Designing a new foundation for design
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
Business Information Systems
The nature of theory in information systems
MIS Quarterly
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Significant threads: The nature of data
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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This is the second paper in a series examining the fundamental nature of informatics. The aim of the current paper is to provide a more detailed account of the concept of an information system based upon an earlier paper entitled Informatics and the Inca. The paper also builds upon the content of the first paper in this series entitled Neolithic Informatics: The Nature of Information. We ground the discussion in a significant case from the Second World War: that of the Warning Network. The Warning Network was a system that contributed to victory of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. Through examination of this case we establish the idea of an information system as a semi-formal 'language' necessary for the coordination and control of activity in various forms of human organization.