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European Journal of Information Systems Volume 14, 2005 - Issue 5: Special Issue: Personal Reflections on Claudio Ciborra's Life and Work
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The obituary as bricolage: the Mann Gulch disaster and the problem of heroic rationality

Bernd Carsten StahlCentre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, The GatewayLeicesterU.K.Correspondence[email protected]
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Pages 487-491 | Received 08 Aug 2005, Accepted 28 Sep 2005, Published online: 19 Dec 2017

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