Representing organization : knowledge, management, and the information age

This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between the abstractions of current theories of organization and the somewhat excessively grounded material that forms the bulk of literatures within the information systems and knowledge management communities. It provides a theoretically informed analysis of the organizational impact of information technologies by examining and commenting upon the myriad ways in which various actors, organizations, and environments are represented. through these technologies. It deploys a number of different theoretical lenses (including systems theory, social constr