The increasing importance of Business Process Modelling and Knowledge Management within economic reality as well as their common epistemological problem are good reasons to look for an integrative approach to both disciplines. The widely recognized lack of epistemological foundation in information systems research also applies to Business Process Modelling and Knowledge Management, thus making ...

An ethnographic approach to language aims at explaining the organization of a verbal culture, understood as the result of speakers’ practices and agency. The instrument of this research is fieldwork. For the verbal cultures of bygone societies, only examination of written records helps us to guess how speaking worked at the time. This general issue is addressed by scrutinizing a medieval Catala...