Research Notes on Developing a Formal Organizational Language

The emergence of the Information Systems (IS) field and the delineation of its epistemological boundaries are tied to the strong social element that involves the study of Information Technology (IT) in organizations(Land, 1983;Friedman, 1989;Angell, 1991).With the needs of the so-called information-age organization moving further away from those that characterized the industrial organization of the 20th century, research is focusing on where and how new forms of information handling are conceived, planned and implemented(Hammer, 1990;Venkatraman, 1991).The magnitude of the effects that the process of information handling has on the structure and behaviour of organizations is evidenced through its influence on the development of organizational theories(Drucker, 1988;Handy, 1995)and practice(Porter, 1985;Hammer, 1993).