ABSTRACT
In a paper exploring the relationship between information theory and organizational analysis, Cooper (1993a) connected cybernetics with post-structuralism: relating the understanding of systems as patterns of difference with the understanding of language as the ordering of difference. In the light of these interconnections, he suggested that the ‘time had come’ for the theory of information to take a more explicit and significant role in the understanding of organization. We shall argue that while in some respects such a development of organization studies has undoubtedly come to pass, its concern has been to emphasize the controllability rather than the undecidability of these interconnections. In this chapter we contribute to the redressing of this imbalance through an examination of the interconnections between information and organization in the context of computer software.
