Within the last decade, bricolage, as an approach to qualitative inquiry, has gained popularity in academic circles. However, while conceptual and concrete precedents exist, the approach has remained relatively misunderstood, and unpopular, in broader research communities. This may be because the complexity of the approach has stymied widespread discussions and commentary. This article means to...

This paper presents a personal account of how a PhD supervisor came to an understanding of an approach to research that was unfamiliar to him. Additionally it addresses the question of what makes the approach, in this case bricolage, an acceptable format for academic work and in particular PhD study. Bricolage is a relatively little used approach to research; therefore, researchers utilizing br...

This paper describes the findings of a case study that explores the improvisation and bricolage in a structured process management environment. The research focuses on software developers in an embedded system development project. This investigation adopts an interpretive approach, which involves the collection and analysis of qualitative data. The research offers insights into a range of dimen...

Visual programming environments, such as Scratch, are increasingly being used by schools to teach problem solving and computational thinking skills. However, academic research is divided on the effect that visual programming has on problem solving in a computational context. This paper focuses on the role of bricolage programming in this debate; a bottom-up programming approach that arises when...

This paper presents the findings of a case study that investigates how developers and managers deal with ambiguous and fluctuating requirements during an embedded system development in a structured process management environment. In particular, this paper focuses on improvisation and bricolage actions as a coping strategy by software developers and managers. This research adopts an interpretive...

In this paper we consider artists who create their work by writing algorithms, which when interpreted by a computer generates their plotted drawings, synthesised music, animated digital video, or whatever target medium they have chosen. We examine the demands that such artists place upon their environments, the relationships between concepts and algorithms, and of cognition and computation. We ...

This paper shows how organizational waste and processes of bricolage have an important role in the functioning of public organizations, and how this is essential to innovation, organisational resilience and survival. This paper largely builds on the work of organisation theorist Karl E. Weick and his work on bricolage and improvisation more specifically. The paper is conceptual in nature, and o...

The Web today provides a corpus of design examples unparalleled in human history. However, leveraging existing designs to produce new pages is currently difficult. This paper introduces the Bricolage algorithm for automatically transferring design and content between Web pages. Bricolage introduces a novel structuredprediction technique that learns to create coherent mappings between pages by t...

In this conceptual paper we consider resource acquisition and configuration in new technologybased firms. Essentially, we propose that bootstrapping and bricolage are essential dynamic capabilities in such firms. We argue these embedded routines, which are connected by learning processes, provide a way to remain lean and agile while managing innovation in a dynamic environment. Bootstrapping en...

Evidence shows that start-ups success is positively correlated with the launch of the first product. However, new ventures are seldom able to acquire abundant resources for new product development (NPD), which means that entrepreneurs may depend on personal creativity instead of physical investments to achieve and accelerate innovation speed. This study accentuates the role of entrepreneurial b...