In the Methodological Appendix of The Labyrinths of Information - one of his last works - Claudio Ciborra ponders about his method of inquiry and his personal way of doing research - what he refers to as his 'chosen road'. He writes: I had never reflected systematically about the process by which (my) papers were generated (...) until I reread, for the nth time, the introduction to Heidegger's Being and Time (1962), specifically his definition of phenomenology. This definition (or rather my interpretation of it) at last helped me to make explicit the way that I understand how I proceed. (Ciborra 2002: 173) In reflecting about his method he then continues: To be sure, I have crafted such method in a dilettante fashion, along the way so to speak (...) I could only find the limits of current models and interpretations, and the roots of alternative ones, by reading between the lines of the stylized explanations; and peering into their wrinkles and especially into the interstices between practice, ongoing interpretations, and what was left out, or explained away by referring to the obvious background that both business practitioners and researchers were supposed to share ... . My understanding of Heidegger's phenomenological method helped me to specify, and somewhat systematize, what I was (and am) doing. (Ciborra 2002: 173-175)
Information Systems and the Quest for Meaning: An Account of Claudio Ciborra's Intellectual Journey
Lanzara;GF
2009
Abstract
In the Methodological Appendix of The Labyrinths of Information - one of his last works - Claudio Ciborra ponders about his method of inquiry and his personal way of doing research - what he refers to as his 'chosen road'. He writes: I had never reflected systematically about the process by which (my) papers were generated (...) until I reread, for the nth time, the introduction to Heidegger's Being and Time (1962), specifically his definition of phenomenology. This definition (or rather my interpretation of it) at last helped me to make explicit the way that I understand how I proceed. (Ciborra 2002: 173) In reflecting about his method he then continues: To be sure, I have crafted such method in a dilettante fashion, along the way so to speak (...) I could only find the limits of current models and interpretations, and the roots of alternative ones, by reading between the lines of the stylized explanations; and peering into their wrinkles and especially into the interstices between practice, ongoing interpretations, and what was left out, or explained away by referring to the obvious background that both business practitioners and researchers were supposed to share ... . My understanding of Heidegger's phenomenological method helped me to specify, and somewhat systematize, what I was (and am) doing. (Ciborra 2002: 173-175)I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
