Author:
Angela Lacerda Nobre
Affiliation:
Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal ESCE-IPS, Portugal
Abstract:
The epistemic grounding of organizational and computing science thinking is highly relevant to a discussion of collaboration and coordination activity. The critical importance of semiotics, and of action and of language philosophy, has been explicitly recognized by scientific communities such as “Organizational Semiotics” (OS) and “Language and Action Perspective” (LAP). The importance of the recognition of the social embeddeness of organizational activity, and of phenomenological interpretations of knowledge and meaning, are often referred as a “social turn” in organizational theories, such as organizational learning, knowledge management and communities of practice. However, the full potential of such approaches needs to be supported by a renewed interest in philosophical perspectives able to sustain and disseminate their intrinsic value. Opposing a humanist paradigm, based on structuralism and cognitivism, the alternative perspective, grounded in social semiotics, Heidegger’s onto
logy, and Peirce an pragmatism, enables an interpretation of organizations, information systems, collaboration and coordination, that radically shifts its focus towards their inner social dynamisms.
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