Dyslogistic Information Ecologies

This article explores the dyslogistics (spoken badly/pertaining to dysfunctioning communication) of organizational interaction. Dyslogistics are to be opposed to eulogistics ( dys + (eu)logistic). The term is attributed to Jeremy Bentham ( Webster's Dictionary , 1913 edn). Two ethnographic case...

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Published inManagement learning Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 329 - 347
Main Authors Letiche, Hugo, van Mens, Lucie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 01.09.2003
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Communication (Thought Transfer)
Communities of practice
Community Relations
Consciousness
Ecology
Educational Needs
Employees
Environment
Ethnography
Group Instruction
Holism
Information communication
Information Needs
Information processing
Information sharing
Interpersonal Relationship
Knowledge management
Learning Processes
Organization theory
Organizational learning
Social Networks
Studies
Systems Analysis
dyslogistics
organizational ecology
quasi-subjects
information ecology
quasi-objects
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Summary:This article explores the dyslogistics (spoken badly/pertaining to dysfunctioning communication) of organizational interaction. Dyslogistics are to be opposed to eulogistics ( dys + (eu)logistic). The term is attributed to Jeremy Bentham ( Webster's Dictionary , 1913 edn). Two ethnographic cases within a single business organization are presented to explore what Nardi and O'Day call an information ecology . But while their information ecologies seem self-evidently to lead to organizational learning, ours will point to complex and often equivocal interactions, sometimes even to oppressiveness .
ISSN:1350-5076
1461-7307
DOI:10.1177/13505076030343003