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Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage

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TBTed BakerRutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and RightsRNReed E. NelsonUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison

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Implication

Field study examines how resource-poor firms create value through bricolage, indicating new entrepreneurial pathways.

Key Points

  • This study aims to explore how entrepreneurs in resource-constrained environments innovate by utilizing available resources.
  • Field study of 29 resource-constrained firms
  • Analysis of behaviors related to Lévi-Strauss's concept of bricolage
  • Development of a formal definition and process model of entrepreneurial bricolage
  • Entrepreneurs used bricolage to redefine resource environments, creating unique services
  • Bricolage behaviors were linked to firm growth, demonstrating its importance in entrepreneurial success
  • Firms that embraced bricolage challenged dominant resource definitions, indicating a need for constructivist approaches in entrepreneurship

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Baker et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d74f1cf07a12db70b8a98ehttps://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.2005.50.3.329
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