From Thinking to Tinkering

Ciborra, C. U. (1992). From Thinking to Tinkering: The Grassroots of Strategic Information Systems. The Information Society, 8(4), 297-309.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1992

DOI

10.1080/01972243.1992.9960124

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.1992.9960124

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sociology_anthropology

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Primes

• Bricolage
  • In software it is the kludge and the glue script — a working integration chained from cron jobs, shell scripts, and spreadsheets that the next quarter demands.

    This sourceFrames information-systems development as bricolage/tinkering — local improvisation and recombination of available systems rather than top-down design — the software-kludge/glue-script register of the pattern.

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