Guidelines for e-commerce website design deal well with the more objective aspects of page design, but have less to say about overall site structure and users' emotional responses. In this study we used a semiotic approach ...

This paper describes interpretive case-study research into the development on some e-commerce interorganisational information systems (EIOS) implemented in Australia. The research was undertaken in two phases, firstly a ...

This paper addresses the design of web sites for companies engaged in global e-commerce. Different language groups and different cultures prefer different styled of web pages. In this paper we performed a comparative ...

In this paper, a case study of the evolution of an organisational intranet is used to compare the concepts of ¿materiality¿ with actor-network theory¿s black-boxing. The authors argue that information systems need to become ...

Representation is a key issue of IS design and operation that is often ignored. Actor-network theory (ANT), a semiotic theory of stakeholders, provides a way of dealing with representation. Combining aspects of ANT and ...