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Bricolage
About: Bricolage is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 681 publications have been published within this topic receiving 19144 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a field study of 29 resource-constrained firms that varied dramatically in their responses to similar objective environments is used to examine the process by which entrepreneurs in resource-poor environments were able to render unique services by recombining elements at hand for new purposes that challenged institutional definitions and limits.
Abstract: A field study of 29 resource-constrained firms that varied dramatically in their responses to similar objective environments is used to examine the process by which entrepreneurs in resource-poor environments were able to render unique services by recombining elements at hand for new purposes that challenged institutional definitions and limits. We found that Levi-Strauss's concept of bricolage—making do with what is at hand—explained many of the behaviors we observed in small firms that were able to create something from nothing by exploiting physical, social, or institutional inputs that other firms rejected or ignored. We demonstrate the socially constructed nature of resource environments and the role of bricolage in this construction. Using our field data and the existing literature on bricolage, we advance a formal definition of entrepreneurial bricolage and induce the beginnings of a process model of bricolage and firm growth. Central to our contribution is the notion that companies engaging in bri...
3,761 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the existence, channels and implications of strategic improvisation in knowledge-intensive new businesses and suggest that not only may founding itself be improvisational in some cases, but improvisational processes and issues permeate entrepreneurial activity and have non-obvious implications for emergent firm strategies and competencies.
1,082 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the bricolage concept to social entrepreneurial action and propose an extended theoretical framework of social bricolages, identifying three additional constructs associated with social entrepreneurship: social value creation, stakeholder participation, and persuasion.
Abstract: Current theorizations of bricolage in entrepreneurship studies require refinement and development to be used as a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship. Our analysis traces bricolage's conceptual underpinnings from various disciplines, identifying its key constructs as making do, a refusal to be constrained by limitations, and improvisation. Although these characteristics appear to epitomize the process of creating social enterprises, our research identifies three further constructs associated with social entrepreneurship: social value creation, stakeholder participation, and persuasion. Using data from a qualitative study of eight U.K. social enterprises, we apply the bricolage concept to social entrepreneurial action and propose an extended theoretical framework of social bricolage.
1,053 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the socially embedded nature of institutions for common property resource management and collective action and show that institutions formed through bricolage are a dynamic mixture of the modern and traditional, 'traditional', 'formal' and 'informal'.
Abstract: This study challenges the oversimplified way in which abstract and bureaucratic 'design principles' derived from resource management literature are translated into development policy and practice, in pursuit of robust and enduring institutions. Drawing on research in the Usangu Basin, Tanzania, it explores the socially embedded nature of institutions for common property resource management and collective action. The concept of 'institutional bricolage' is outlined; a process by which people consciously and unconsciously draw on existing social and cultural arrangements to shape institutions in response to changing situations. Contrary to much theory, this study shows that institutions formed through bricolage are a dynamic mixture of the 'modern' and 'traditional', 'formal' and 'informal'.
813 citations
TL;DR: The authors describe a critical notion of this research orientation, which they call bricolage. But, as an interdisciplinary approach, bricolages can be used in a variety of ways.
Abstract: Picking up on Norman Denzin's and Yvonna Lincoln's articulation of the concept of bricolage, the essay describes a critical notion of this research orientation. As an interdisciplinary approach, br...
794 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2026 | 1 |
| 2025 | 86 |
| 2024 | 115 |
| 2023 | 156 |
| 2022 | 248 |
| 2021 | 60 |