An empirical study on entrepreneurial bricolage behavior for sustainable enterprise performance of startups

Pillai, Rajasshrie

doi:10.1108/jeee-01-2019-0009

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“…The fast way that technology evolves and changes has made a significant influence on the innovativeness of companies. Besides that, firms in emerging markets often find themselves Funding: The PhD students who developed this study are financed with scholarship by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior -Brasil (CAPES) -Finance Code 001. in unstable environments (Halme et al, 2012), which, in turn, forces them to seek innovative solutions to keep their competitiveness (Sivathanu and Pillai, 2019). Those emerging markets commonly face some technological and market turbulences due to their institutional and structural settings (Khanna and Palepu, 2010).…”

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Bricolage as a path towards organizational innovativeness in times of market and technological turbulence

Santos

Borini

Pereira

2020

JEEE

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Purpose Companies need guidance on how to operate in turbulent environments to improve their innovative performance. However, few studies have been done specifically about how to market and technological turbulence affects the innovative performance in emerging markets. This paper aims to propose model with market turbulence, technological turbulence and firm’s bricolage behavior as antecedents of organizational innovativeness. Design/methodology/approach Two conceptualizations of the role of environmental turbulence are examined as follows: that market turbulence and technological turbulence are established as direct antecedents to organizational innovativeness performance; and the model has a mediating effect through the bricolage behavior. In this sense, the strengths of the paths differ depending on the presence of bricolage. Data were collected from 215 firms operating in Brazil, analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS)-structural equation modeling (SEM) technique as a quantitative method to test the hypotheses. Findings The results indicate that the mediating effect evidenced by the bricolage behavior was supported. In other words, the path from market and technological turbulence to organizational innovativeness is significantly better when permeated by bricolage behavior in the organization. Research limitations/implications It can be suggested to conduct similar research with larger sample size and applying control variables such as the size of the company, as smaller companies have less access to resources and maybe the engagement in bricolage can be even more substantial for them to keep innovating and to remain competitive in times of turbulence. Practical implications Some managerial recommendations and implications are provided. Managers should recognize the possible improvements in the organizational innovativeness development by actively including the bricolage behavior among their companies’ activities. Originality/value The theoretical contribution to the academic knowledge lies in corroborating with previous studies, which pointed out that bricolage has an influence on a firm’s innovativeness and some studies, which address perspectives in the organizational learning field.

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Bricolage as a path towards organizational innovativeness in times of market and technological turbulence

Santos

Borini

Pereira

2020

JEEE

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“…The 21st century is marked by increasingly aggressive competition in the global marketplace, where businesses from typical and atypical emerging economies, as well as other economies fight for effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability (Sivathanu and Pillai, 2019). In this scenario, SMEs are pivotal for markets and employment, especially considering cyclical features (Tvrdon, 2016).…”

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“…Newly, a competitive advantage is linked not only to a cost and differentiation focus but also to other factors (MacGregor Pelikánová, 2019b), such as to an institutionalization of sustainable and ethical principles (Porter and Kramer, 2011) and practices (Sroka and Szántó, 2018) and innovation drives (MacGregor Pelikánová, 2019c). In emerging economies, these trends are visible based on empirical studies (Sivathanu and Pillai, 2019). Naturally, such an entrepreneurial endeavor, i.e.…”

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“…Economic globalization is dominated by the drive for both effectiveness and efficiency, which translates often into an increase in productivity, as well as social and ecological damages (Schüz, 2012; Turečková and Nevima, 2020). The entrepreneurship, especially entrepreneurship used by small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) in emerging economies (Andras, 2018), attempts to react to it by engaging in digitalization (Sivathanu and Pillai, 2019), in social networking (Tehreem and Ahmad, 2019) while fighting for a better business environment (Aleksandrova et al , 2019) and against corruption (Ghura et al , 2019). Interestingly, even SMEs from emerging economies have been demonstrating a growing awareness about the market orientation (Mahrous and Genedy, 2019) and its relationship to sustainability (Sivathanu and Pillai, 2019).…”

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Addressing the COVID-19 challenges by SMEs in the hotel industry – a Czech sustainability message for emerging economies

Pelikánová

Cvik²,

MacGregor

2021

JEEE

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Purpose Emerging economies have to address positive challenges such as sustainability, digitalization, entrepreneurial readiness and planning and behavioral strategies and negative challenges, such as corruption and bureaucracy. The COVID-19 pandemic hit all economies and arguably made hotel businesses that are from less typical emerging economies, such as the Czech Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to deal with similar challenges to that of their counterparts from typical emerging economies. How do Czech hotel SMEs address the COVID-19 challenges and what sustainability message can be extracted from that with the relevance for not only businesses from emerging economies? The purpose of this paper is to explore how Czech hotel SMEs address the COVID-19 challenges and what sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A consolidated parsing of the literature, legislative and analytical framework, along with an investigative case study of 11 Czech hotel SMEs was performed, based on the questionnaire survey and semi-structured in-depth direct interviews. The holistic thematic analysis processed this fresh data and allowed Socratic questioning and glossing while addressing both research questions. Findings The performed case study reveals that typical challenges faced by entrepreneurs in emerging economies became, via COVID-19, universal challenges, these challenges are a valuable impulse for digitalization and changes of entrepreneurial strategies, but not so much for sustainability, and the omnipresent negative impact of corruption and bureaucracy. Originality/value This paper presents a pioneering study regarding the addressing COVID-19 and sustainability concerns by SMEs in a less typical emerging economy and offering a universal, partially comparative and sadly not so sustainable, message which is not just limited to emerging economies.

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“…Organizations often impress by discovering ways to operate competitively given resource limitations, as they figure out how to make the limited resources available to them more efficient (Johns & Hogan, 1961). Resource-Based View (RBV) determines the types of resources that enable businesses to achieve an economical edge in the marketplace (Hooi et al, 2016;Sivathanu & Pillai, 2019). In addition to this, RBV focusses so much on building a competitive edge in a responsible way across the capital (Eisenhardt, K.M.…”

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Impact of Bricolage on Organizational Innovation Through Recognition of Opportunities

Ali¹,

Azam²,

Naveed³

et al. 2020

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Although several studies have presented bricolage as a method in the context of new projects to address resource limitations, none have specifically explored the effects of bricolage to find potential on organizational innovation prospects within the context of recognition of opportunity. The purpose of this research is to identify how the bricolage effect on organization innovation through the recognition of opportunities. The prior study was adopted a causal and comparative design of a quantitative approach while a cross-sectional survey technique is determined to gather data by questionnaire. A simple random sampling technique is adopted to select 242 employees of various Chinese organizations who are working in Pakistan. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, ANOVA, and simple linear regression is regressed to analyze the data through inferential statistical techniques. The results of the study showed there is no substantial change of bricolage on organizational innovation by recognition of opportunities based on the number of staff, year of initiation, and position of the employee. However, it is suggested that organizations should hold training and conferences to raise awareness among workers about the recognition of opportunities and their benefits. This study could be useful to decision-makers, Chinese, and resident investors who plan to invest in Pakistan. Investors can take benefit from understanding the local economy and organization innovation by recognition of opportunities.

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An empirical study on entrepreneurial bricolage behavior for sustainable enterprise performance of startups

Cited by 34 publications

References 88 publications

Bricolage as a path towards organizational innovativeness in times of market and technological turbulence

Bricolage as a path towards organizational innovativeness in times of market and technological turbulence

Addressing the COVID-19 challenges by SMEs in the hotel industry – a Czech sustainability message for emerging economies

Impact of Bricolage on Organizational Innovation Through Recognition of Opportunities

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