Claude Levi-Strauss (28 November 1908 - 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology".
He argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques, which positioned him as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought, where his ideas reached into fields including the humanities, sociology and philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity."
He was honored by universities throughout the world and held the chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France (1959-1982); he was elected a member of the Academie Francaise in 1973.
Claudio Ciborra, "The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems", Oxford University Press, (2002).
Ted Baker and Howard E. Aldrich, "Bricolage and resource-seeking: Improvisational responses to dependence in entrepreneurial firms", Working paper, University of North. Carolina at Chapel Hill, (2000).
Ted Baker, Anne S. Miner and Dale T. Eesley, "Improvising firms: bricolage, account giving and improvisational competency in the founding process", Research Policy, 32 (2): 255-276 (2003).
Raghu Garuda and Peter Karnoe, "Bricolage versus breakthrough: distributed and embedded agency in technology entrepreneurship", Research Policy, 32(2): 277-300, (2003).
Raffi Duymedjian and Charles-Clemens Ruling, "Towards a foundation of bricolage in organization and management theory", Organization Studies 31(2):133-151 , (2010).
Ted Baker and Reed E. Nelson, "Creating something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage", Administrative Science Quarterly, 50 (3): 329-366, (2005).
Miguel Pina e Cunha, "Bricolage in organizations", FEUNL Working Paper Series wp474, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Economia , (2005).
Severine Le Loarne, "Bricolage versus creativity what's the difference?", Working paper serie RMT (WPS 05-02), Grenoble Ecole de Management, (2005).
Nelson Phillips and Paul Tracey, "Opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial capabilities and bricolage: Connecting institutional theory and entrepreneurship in strategic organization", Strategic Organization, 5(3), pp.313-320, (2007).
Minna M. Halme and Sara Lindeman, "Innovating sustainable energy for the rural BOP: The case of mini-hydro power in rural Ethiopia", Joint Actions on Climate Change, Aalborg, Denmark, (2009).
Preeta M. Banerjee and Benjamin A. Campbell, "Inventor bricolage and firm technology research and development", R&D Management, 39(5), pp.473-487, (2009).
Kathryn M Fahy, Jon Erland Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith and Carole Elliott, "Bricolage and alignments: a practice lens on knowledge work in multi-disciplinary engineering teams at Airbus UK", International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC 2009), Amsterdam, (2009).
Geoffrey R. Archer, Ted Baker and Rene Mauer, "Towards an alternative theory of entrepreneurial success: Integrating bricolage, effectuation and improvisation (summary)", Frontiers of entrepreneurship research, 29(6) article 4, (2009).
Helen Haugh, "Social Bricolage: Theorizing Social Value Creation in Social Enterprises", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 34(4), pp. 681-703, (2010).
Lars Fuglsang, "Bricolage and invisible innovation in public service innovation", Journal of Innovation Economics, p. 67-87, (2010).
Julienne M. Senyard, Per Davidsson and Paul R. Steffens, "Venture creation and resource processes : using Bricolage sustainability ventures", Proceedings of the 7th AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Swinburne University of Technology, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, pp.637-648, (2010).
Julienne Senyard, Per Davidsson, and Paul Steffens, "The role of bricolage and resource constraints in high potential sustainability ventures", 2010 BCERC : Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 10-12 June, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2010).
Julienne Senyard, Ted M. Baker and Paul R. Steffens, "Entrepreneurial bricolage and firm performance : moderating effects of firm change and innovativeness", 2010 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice & Research, 6-10 August, Montreal, Canada, (2010).
Paul R. Steffens, Ted Baker, Julienne M. Senyard, "Betting on the underdog : bricolage as an engine of resource advantage", Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2010, Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, (2010).
Julienne Senyard, Ted M. Baker and Per Davidsson, "Bricolage as a path to innovation for resource constrained new firms", Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management : East Meets West . Enlightening, Balancing, Transcending, 12-16 August 2011, San Antonio, Texas, (2011).
Lars Fuglsang and Flemming Sorensen, "The balance between bricolage and innovation: management dilemmas in sustainable public innovation", The Service Industries Journal, 31(4), pp.581-595(15), (2011).
Oswald Jones, Allan Macpherson and Dilani Jayawarna, "Learning to Grow: Dynamic Capabilities in New Technology-based Firms", 2011 conference for Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC2011), (2011).
Eva Boxenbaum and Linda Rouleau, "New knowledge products as bricolage: Metaphors and scripts in organizational theory", Academy of Management Review, 36(2): 272-296, (2011).
Chris Hendry and Paul Harborne, "Changing the view of wind power development: More than gbricolageh", Research Policy, 40(5), pp.778-789, (2011).
Bansler, J. P. and E. C. Havn "Improvisation in Action : Making Sense of IS Development in Organizations", International Workshop on Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems, Linkoping, (2003).
Bernd Carsten Stahl, "The Obituary as Bricolage: The Mann Gulch Disaster and the Problem of Heroic Rationality", European Journal of Information Systems, 14(5), pp. 487 - 491 (2005).
Steven Verjans, "Bricolage as a way of life ? improvisation and irony in information systems", European Journal of Information Systems, 14(5), pp.504-506, (2005).
Eduardo Ribas Fontana and Carsten Sorensen, "From Idea to Blah! Understanding Mobile Services Development as Interactive Innovation", Journal of Information Systems and Technology Management (Online), 2(2), (2005).
Jorgen Bansler and Erling Havn, "Improvisation in information systems development", In: Kaplan B., Truex D.P., Wastell D., Wood-Harper A.T., DeGross J.I. (eds) Information Systems Research. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 143. Springer, Boston, MA , (2004).
Elaine Ferneley and Frances Bell, "Tinker, Tailor: Information Systems And Strategic Development In Knowledge-Based SMEs", Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005, Regensburg, Germany, May 26-28, (2005).
Elaine Ferneley and Frances Bell, "Using bricolage to integrate business and information technology innovation in SMEs", Technovation, 26 (2), pp.232-241, (2006).
Gabriel J. Costello, Colm Rochford and Brian Donnellan, "Supply chain transformation in APC Ireland: lean thinking, opposing logics and bricolage", 15th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 7-9, (2007).
Maryam Ali and Savita Bailur, "The challenge of gsustainabilityh in ICT4D - Is bricolage the answer? ", the 9th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 28-30 May (2007).
Wolfgang Molnar and Joe Nandhakumar, "Embedded System Development Process: A Quest from Innovation to Adaption", Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Association for Information Systems, Galway, Ireland (2008).
Dirk S. Hovorka and Matt Germonprez, "Tinkering, tailoring, and bricolage: Implications for theories of design", the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2009), San Francisco, United States, (2009).
William R. Hazlewood, Nick Dalton, Paul Marshall, Yvonne Rogers, Susanna Hertrich, "Bricolage and Consultation: Addressing New Design Challenges When Building Large-Scale Installations", DIS '10 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 16-20 Aug, (2010).
Aditya Johri, "Sociomaterial bricolage: The creation of location-spanning work practices by global software developers", Information and Software Technology, 53(9), pp.955-968, (2011).
Say Yen Teoh and Nilmini Wickramasinghe, "A Strategic Improvisation Model: A Case Study Of Healthcare Information Systems Design", the Proceedings of The 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2011), (2011).
Sherry Turkle and Seymour Papert, "Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete"
Cindy Poremba, "Beyond Boy's Toys: Women, Play and Mindstorms Robotics", Life by Design: Everyday Digital Culture Symposium, University of California, Irvine, (2003).
Micheal O Duill, "2 Intelligences: a bricolage", Eurologo2005, Proceedings of the 10th European Logo Conference, pp. 113-122, OEIiZK, Warsaw, August 27-31 (2005).
Alan F. Blackwell, "Gender in Domestic Programming: from Bricolage to Seances dfEssayage", CHI 2006 workshop on End User Software Engineering, (2006).
Evelyn Stiller, "Teaching programming using bricolage", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 24(6), pp.35-42, (2009).
Florence R. Sullivan, "Serious and Playful Inquiry: Epistemological Aspects of Collaborative Creativity", Educational Technology & Society, 14 (1), pp. 55-65,(2011).
Joe L. Kincheloe, "Describing the Bricolage: Conceptualizing a New Rigor in Qualitative Research", Qualitative Inquiry, 7(6), pp.679-692, (2001).
Yvonna S. Lincoln, "An Emerging New Bricoleur: Promises and Possibilities - A Reaction to Joe Kincheloe's gDescribing the Bricoleurh", Qualitative Inquiry, 7(6), pp.693-696, (2001).
Joe L. Kincheloe, "Introduction: the power of the bricolage: expanding research methods", from "Rigour and Complexity in Educational Research" by Joe Kincheloe and Kathleen Berry, Open University Press, (2004).
Joe L. Kincheloe, "On to the Next Level: Continuing the Conceptualization of the Bricolage", Qualitative Inquiry, 11(3), pp.323-350, (2005).
Patrick M. Jenlink, "Editorial: on bricolage and the intellectual work of the scholar-practitioner", Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 22, (2005).
Sallie G. Helms, Beverly J. Irby, Rafael Lara-Alecio, Cindy Guerrero-Valecillos and Kathleen Cox, "Educational Bricolage: Interdisciplinarity, Culture and Complexity in a Longitudinal Study of English Language Literacy and Acquisition", the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California, April 13, (2009).
Anthony Bush and Michael Silk, "Towards an evolving critical consciousness in coaching research: the physical pedagogic bricolage", International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 5 (4), pp. 551-565, (2010).
David Starr-Glass, "Wild pansies, trojan horses, and others: International teaching and learning as bricolage", International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4(2), (2010).
Pierre-Andre Caron, Alain Derycke, Xavier Le Pallec, "Bricolage and Model Driven Approach to design distant course", Proceeeding of E-Learn 2005, world conference on E- learning in corporate Government, Healthcare & higher education, Vancouver, (2005).
Eva Wangelin, "Matching Bricolage and Hermeneutics: A theoretical patchwork in progress", Design Semiotics in Use/ Nordcode workshop, University of Art and Design (UIAH), Helsinki, (2007).
Giuseppe O. Longo, "The Epistemological Turn: Technology, Bricolage and Design", Conference on gMultiple Ways to Design Researchh, SUPSI Lugano, November 11-13, (2009).
Alex McLean and Geraint Wiggins, "Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts", PPIG 2010 (Psychology of Programming Interest Group) 22nd Annual Workshop, 19-21 Sep 2010, University Carlos III of Madrid, (2010).
Joyce S R Yee and Craig Bremner, "Methodological Bricolage - What does it tell us about Design?", Doctoral Education in Design Conference, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, (2011).
Donald MacKenzie, "An Equation and its Worlds: Bricolage, Exemplars, Disunity and Performativity in Financial Economics", Social Studies of Science, 33(6), pp.831-868, (2003).
Sabina Jaeger and Romuald Rudzki, "How SMEs engage in the global economy - cases from New Zealand", 2007 Oxford Business & Economics Conference (2007).
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams, "Financial Innovation: Frame, Conjuncture and Bricolage", CRESC Working Paper Series, No. 59, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester (2008).
Nicholas Hildyard, "A (Crumbling) Wall of Money - Financial Bricolage, Derivatives and Power", Corner House Briefing 39, (2008).
Ali R.za Gungen, "Organizing Debt Swap as Political eBricolagef: An Inquiry into Turkish and Argentinian Swaps of 2001", AHE Annual Conference 2011, 13th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, (2011).
Gilles Paquet, "Governance as Subversive Bricolage in the 21st Century", the seminar GOVERNANCE: CANADA/IRELAND organized by the Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies (University College Dublin) and the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland at the Canadian Embassy in Dublin on April 26, (2003).
Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet, "Design Challenges for the Strategic State: Bricolage and Sabotage", A.M. Maslove (ed), How Ottawa Spends 2009-2010, McGill-Queen's University Press, (2009).
Els Lecoutere, "Institutions Under Construction: Resolving Resource Conflicts in Tanzanian Irrigation Schemes", MICROCON - A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict in its series Research Working Papers number 23 (2010).
Bettina E. Schmidt, "Polyphonic Bricolage - Caribbean Cultures in New York City", the 2003 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, March 27-29, (2003).
Franz Liebl, "The Future of Bricolage and the Bricoleur of the Future", in "Chicks on Speed: It's A Project", Booth-Clibborn Editions, (2004).
Rachel Russell, "Branding and Bricolage - Gender, consumption and transition", Childhood, 12(2), pp.221-237, (2005).
Annette N. Markham, "Go Ugly Early: Fragmented Narrative and Bricolage as Interpretive Method", Qualitative Inquiry, 11(6), pp.813-839, (2005).
Mark Deuze, "Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture", The Information Society, 22, pp.63-75, (2006).
Douglas Brownlie and Paul Hewer, "Cultures of Unruly Bricolage: eDebadgingf and the Cultural Logic of Resistance", Advances in Consumer Research, 36, pp.686-687 (2009).
Simon Duncan, "Personal Life, Pragmatism and Bricolage", Sociological Research Online, 16 (4) 13 (2011).