Editorial policy
The journal is defined by a particular perspective:

1. action, communication, representation, and interpretation mediated by
2. information technology in
3. work organizations

The emphasis may be on any of the three components, as long as the others are treated as important parts of the context. For example, technical papers are welcome as long as technology is viewed as media for action and communication.

The journal aims at combined theoretical and empirical developments. Theoretical/conceptual papers should contain some practical or empirical illustrations. Papers with emphasis on empirical research must contain theoretical arguments.

Organizational issues
The journal is university published and free. Distribution is solely made through electronic media (www).

It is hosted and sponsored by Aarhus University and Linköping University. It is an inclusive journal and not connected to a particular community.

However, we acknowledge some particular scientific communities as being “progenitors” for this journal: Language Action Perspective (LAP) and Organisational Semiotics (OS). Within these communities there has been organized research exchange through workshops, conferences and other activities for quite some time.
          These communities have shown to be vigorous and they have grown mature. We also acknowledge a newly created “conference community”; Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems (ALOIS), which relies on LAP and OS, but also goes beyond these communities to other action-theoretic perspectives.
          The journal will be used for publishing selected papers from the LAP, OS and ALOIS conferences and facilitate contacts between and within these communities. The journal will cover a need for research exchange within these communities. It should however be emphasized that papers are most welcome from anyone addressing issues within the scope of the journal; not only from persons who identify themselves with these communities.

The journal intends to be a high quality forum for knowledge exchange within its defined scope. This will be pursued through reviewing and publishing papers. The editorial board will be supportive in their assessment of papers. The journal encourages cumulative growth of knowledge and scientific dialogues. This can be done in several ways and some examples are given here:

1. We encourage persons submitting papers to explicitly relate their work to papers earlier published in the journal or in other related forums. 
   
2. The editors may invite papers in a particular area building on some earlier publications.
   
3. Shorter commentary papers are welcome, which comment on a paper earlier published in the journal.