Bricolage as a Path to Innovativeness for Resource‐Constrained New Firms

Senyard, Julienne; Baker, Ted; Steffens, Paul; Davidsson, Per

doi:10.1111/jpim.12091

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“…Entrepreneurs' use of remixing, particularly in resource-poor environments, is known as ''bricolage'' and offers an attractive option for resource-constrained firms to innovate (Ciborra, 2002;Baker and Nelson, 2005; De Waal and Knott, 2013). Senyard et al (2014) found support for this view based on a panel study with 658 founders from Australia. Specifically, the results show that the recombination of available resources has a strong positive effect on innovativeness.…”

Section: Process: Mechanisms Of Recombinationsmentioning

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Copy, Transform, Combine: Exploring the Remix as a Form of Innovation

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Friesike

Wirth

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Journal of Information Technology

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The reuse of existing knowledge is an indispensable part of the creation of novel ideas. In the creative domain knowledge reuse is a common practice known as ''remixing''. With the emergence of open internet-based platforms in recent years, remixing has found its way from the world of music and art to the design of arbitrary physical goods. However, despite its obvious relevance for the number and quality of innovations on such platforms, little is known about the process of remixing and its contextual factors. This paper considers the example of Thingiverse, a platform for the 3D printing community that allows its users to create, share, and access a broad range of printable digital models. We present an explorative study of remixing activities that took place on the platform over the course of six years by using an extensive set of data on models and users. On the foundation of these empirically observed phenomena, we formulate a set of theoretical propositions and managerial implications regarding (1) the role of remixes in design communities, (2) the different patterns of remixing processes, (3) the platform features that facilitate remixes, and (4) the profile of the remixing platform's users.

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Section: Process: Mechanisms Of Recombinationsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Copy, Transform, Combine: Exploring the Remix as a Form of Innovation

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Friesike

Wirth

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Journal of Information Technology

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“…They 'make do' with resources at hand which they recombine for new purposes (Baker and Nelson 2005). Particularly for small enterprises with resource constraints, this can be an effective strategy of business development and a path to innovation (Senyard et al 2014). For public services, the bricolage method has been shown to be an important path to innovation thanks to its impact on the well-being of both employees and clients (Fuglsang 2010;Fuglsang and Sørensen 2011;Borins 2001;Andersen 2008).…”

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Innovation in Public Service Systems

Fuglsang

Sundbo

2016

Translational Systems Sciences

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In this chapter, we examine service innovation in the public sector. We outline the characteristics of service innovation and the conditions that in the public sector differ from market-based service sectors. We use the concept of innovation capabilities as the core concept for comparing private and public service innovations. Service innovation within public service systems requires some of the same innovation capabilities as market-based service sectors. However, because public service systems are integrated in political systems, other, partly overlapping, innovation capabilities are required. The political system's lead is a particularity. Innovative co-production with users and the involvement of employees and their bricolage are important capabilities, which we find in both private and public services. Yet, in the public sector, these particular capabilities are related to the fact that employees and 'users' (citizens) may be driven by a public ethos towards adding value to the public sphere (Benington 2011) and service providers cannot abstain from delivering a given service if the context becomes wicked or complex. The capability of externalizing some services to external partners and create networks among public and private actors is important for innovation in public services. It involves such elements as being able to specify the services, coordinate public and private interests, create trust among public and private partners and justify externalization and collaboration vis-a-vis citizens.

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“…Por otro lado, el contar con un capital inicial por encima de la media, facilita, al menos a corto plazo su supervivencia. Por otro lado, quizás esa carencia de la empresa, lleva al emprendedor a "hacer de la necesidad virtud" y buscar soluciones creativas aprovechando y recombinando esos recursos escasos, convirtiéndose en un bricoleur (Baker y Nelson, 2005;Senyard et al 2014). No obstante, los resultados obtenidos en t+6 parecen desmentir, al menos parcialmente, este supuesto.…”

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“…Por el contrario, un emprendedor por oportunidad con un buen nivel de formación y experiencia afín tendrá probablemente, igual o más éxito que otro tipo de emprendedor pese a contar con menores recursos inicialmente. La literatura sobre "bricolage" (Baker y Nelson, 2005;Senyard et al 2014), ofrece argumentos bastante convincentes a este respecto cuando señala la capacidad de ciertos emprendedores enfrentados a situaciones de severas restricciones de recursos disponibles, para poner en marcha proyectos innovadores. La capacidad del emprendedor para recombinar recursos aparentemente obsoletos y de escasa utilidad, puede hacerle conseguir ventajas inesperadas (Garud y Karnoe, 2003).…”

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Supervivencia de empresas sociales de nueva creación. Un enfoque basado en el análisis cualitativo comparativo fsQCA

2018

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ObjectivesThis article has as main objective to check how some entrepreneur's and venture characteristics are related to new social venture survival. Specifically, related to the venture, five conditions have been studied, these conditions are: venture workforce, initial capital and three variables that assess the quality of the social venture plan (business plan). Regarding the entrepreneur's conditions, the experience related to the new venture activity, training level and specific training, and entrepreneurship motivation have been taken into account. Study design and methodologyThe study uses a sample that oscillates between 291 and 212 start-ups according to the period considered. The two outcome original variables are survival at 31 December of the third year (ST+3) and at 31 December of the sixth year (ST+6) after the new venture foundation. Both variables are dichotomous (1 = survival; 0 = failure).The access to this sample has been possible with the collaboration of the Program Management and Planning Service from the Valencia Institute of Youth (IVAJ). This institution provided data on these ventures, whose creators were young entrepreneurs under 30 years old, or under 30 years but partnered with co-workers aged over 30 years, who applied for a grant.Our propositions or tenets imply the existence of an interplay between business plan quality and entrepreneur and firm characteristics. In this case, different combinations of causal conditions could lead to the same outcome. Therefore, taking into account the limitations of conventional quantitative methods to study the effect of different possible causal recipes on survival, this study uses Qualitative Comparative Analysis, specifically fsQCA. QCA methods build and test theories of complex antecedent conditions that are sufficient or necessary to explain an outcome condition (e.g., firm survival). That is, the goal is to determine if any of the conditions, or a combination of the conditions that have been numbered in the previous section are sufficient or necessary to explain new social ventures' survival. ResultsDue to the nature of the analysis that has been applied, the results can be divided into two blocks. The first one come from testing whether any of the causal conditions and their negation are necessary for the 3-year and 6-year survival. Our results show that any of the antecedent conditions is necessary or "almost necessary" for any outcome condition because any consistency score exceeds the threshold of 0.9.The second group of results shows models of sufficiency analysis. In ST+3 there are four main causal configurations that lead to firm survival. There are some conditions that are present in the four combinations, these conditions are both specific training and the level of entrepreneur's training, economic and organizational viability and initial capital. On the other hand, one of the combinations shows a curious characteristic, that is, the lack of financial viability makes the likelihood of survival grow. The most logic explanation is t...

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Bricolage as a Path to Innovativeness for Resource‐Constrained New Firms

Cited by 356 publications

References 96 publications

Copy, Transform, Combine: Exploring the Remix as a Form of Innovation

Copy, Transform, Combine: Exploring the Remix as a Form of Innovation

Innovation in Public Service Systems

Supervivencia de empresas sociales de nueva creación. Un enfoque basado en el análisis cualitativo comparativo fsQCA

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