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Social Bricolage as the Path to Social Entrepreneurship
2021
In the present chapter, the concept of social bricolage is applied to the particular case of Dr. Mateo. A contextualization of her environment is exposed, for the reader to understand the intrinsic and extrinsic motivators explained in Part I. These influences represent the starting point of her professional career. Dr. Mateo’s interests have always been placed in advancing local solutions for local problems. In Pilar’s case, the phenomenon of entrepreneurship began as an act of seeking economic solvency and survival through her ingenuity, creativity, and innovation. Similarly, the phenomenon of causation-related bricolage predominates, in which the process of incessant experimentation fost…
Immigrant entrepreneur firm start-up behavior and reasoning : a reflective study of causation, effectuation and bricolage
2013
Entrepreneurship research studies how and why firms come into being, survive and grow (Davidsson, 2004; Gartner, 1985; Schumpeter, 1934). Early literature has proposed a linear model of entrepreneurship which is intentional (Bird, 1988), opportunity discovery (Kirzner, 1997; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000) and goal & strategy oriented (Wiklund & Shepherd, 2005). Being a mainstream in the earlier research, it is labelled as causation model by Sarasvathy (2001). Several scholars such as Baker & Nelson (2005) and Sarasvathy (2001a, b; 2008) questioned the validity of the model and proposed two additional models to the classic model: Effectuation (Sarasvathy, 1998) and Entrepreneurial Bricolage (…
Negotiating a transnational career around borders: Women's stories in boundaryless academia
2021
The study aimed to give voice to two women sport scientists' life stories to centralize the challenges and ways of coping their career journeys entailed, and enlighten our understanding of the lived experience and meaning of academic migrating. They shared transnational career stories through interviews and ongoing conversations which we re-story in a creative non-fiction story where we blended the two. Our data collection, analysis and representation were informed by theoretical, methodological and interpretive bricolage. As the creative non-fiction story shows, the academic entrepreneur ideal was somewhat disrupted in the women's lives, as migration experiences, aside from thrills, also i…
Managing innovation of care services: An exploration of Norwegian municipalities
2016
AbstractThe social impact of care services provided by the public sector is significant. Nevertheless, these services have received relatively little attention from prior innovation management practices research. This paper addresses this gap by raising the question: What characterises management-driven innovation processes in public organisations providing care services? The qualitative exploration of this question is based on in-depth interviews with key managers in three Norwegian municipalities, and in-depth observation of one ongoing innovation initiative in one municipality. Our findings supplement the findings of prior research by showing that different actors are involved in differe…
Improvisointi ohjelmistokehityksen työvälineenä
2016
Tietojärjestelmien kehittämistä pidetään yleisesti hyvin organisoituna ja suunnitelmallisena tapahtumana. Tämä ei kuitenkaan aina pidä paikkaansa, sillä kehittäminen ei aina tapahdu hallinnoidussa ja tiukasti organisoidussa ympäristössä. Etenkin pienten ja epävirallisten järjestelmien kehittämisessä improvisoinnilla on suurehko rooli. Software development is seen as an organised process. However not all software is developed in a tightly managed and organised environment. Improvisation often plays a role in the development, especially in the case of small and informal systems.
Bricolage in the marketing efforts of a social enterprise
2016
Purpose The paper aims to understand how resource constraints are addressed in the development of a marketing strategy by a social enterprise. Design/methodology/approach The authors have used an in-depth case study of collaboration between a Finnish university and an Indian social enterprise as the methodology for the research in which the data were collected over a period of two years. The data involve semi-structured interviews, field notes and student reports. Findings The authors propose bricolage as a method of marketing ingenuity in resource-constrained social enterprises. Network bricolage and entrepreneurship education bricolage were identified as two mechanisms adopted to address…
Du bricolage en général et des dictionnaires de langue en particulier
2009
If language dictionaries appear as an invariable norm to the general public, they are in actual fact the result of a series of adjustments, of subjective decisions and of empirical or even ideological choices. Those very hesitations are of prime interest and turn dictionary science into an art rather than a science proper. Whether the task of lexicographers consists in determining the word list, in organizing its structure, in synthesizing the meaning of terms, or in selecting their registered uses, they necessarily need to make personal choices since the language they are trying to reconstruct is nothing but an artefact, the synthesis of a so-called “standard Language”. But there is no suc…
Pavillon et bricolage. Quelles possibilités de faire “communs” ?
2021
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Understanding and measuring social entrepreneurship
2017
This thesis aims to understand the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship and measure its component dimensions. In particular, the thesis addresses two research gaps in the social entrepreneurship research. The first gap addressed is the resource mobilization during marketing strategy development of a social enterprise in its start-up stage. Social entrepreneurship is a diverse concept constituting various organizational form and activities. Hence, the second research gap that this research study addresses is the issue of measurement of social entrepreneurship construct. The thesis consists of an introductory essay and five research articles. The first two articles in this compilation addres…