Claudio Ciborra (1951 – 13 February 2005) was an Italian organizational theorist,[1] and Professor of Information Systems and PWC Chair in Risk Management in the London School of Economics.
His contribution ranks among that of the top names in this and related fields such as Shoshana Zuboff, Wanda Orlikowski, Steve Barley, M. Lynne Markus, Lucas Introna, Jannis Kallinikos, Geoff Walsham, Rob Kling, Daniel Robey, Chrisanthi Avgerou and Richard Boland.
But bricolage is not a random trying out: Ciborra emphasises that it is a trying out based on leveraging the world "as defined by the situation".
Ciborra claims that much of the IS and IT world (particularly their strategic management, marketing, academia and training organisations) are in crisis.
Ciborra drew on the work of Roberto Unger and showed how IS can embody and so be enacted as Formative Context.