Bricolage in Social Entrepreneurship

Bacq, Sophie; Ofstein, Laurel F.; Kickul, Jill; Gundry, Lisa K.

doi:10.5367/ijei.2015.0198

Cited by 86 publications

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“…Crowdfunding's importance to entrepreneurial success explains the steady increase in the number of crowdfunding platforms that have appeared around the world to connect different types of projects with potential funders [5,10,11]. In social entrepreneurship, which encompasses both for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises, the role of crowdfunding is particularly important because it may be the only available source of funding [12][13][14]. However, few studies have explored crowdfunding [15,16], and even fewer have examined crowdfunding in the context of social entrepreneurship [17][18][19][20].…”

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Crowdfunding and Social Entrepreneurship: Spotlight on Intermediaries

Rey-Martí¹,

Mohedano-Suanes²,

Simón‐Moya³

2019

Sustainability

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This study contributes to the literature by describing how crowdfunding platforms that host social entrepreneurship projects build and preserve legitimacy. We study three intermediaries, analyzing the actions they take to ensure that creators and funders perceive crowdfunding as a trustworthy form of alternative finance. This study shows that the legitimacy that funders ascribe to a project’s social and/or environmental aims is also a source of legitimacy for the intermediaries that promote social entrepreneurship projects. These intermediaries act as agents of social change, using a range of mechanisms to promote projects that seek to create social and/or environmental value in addition to economic value. Our study also has practical implications. We highlight the mechanisms used to reduce potential risks for intermediaries, creators, and funders and ensure their trust in crowdfunding.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crowdfunding and Social Entrepreneurship: Spotlight on Intermediaries

Rey-Martí¹,

Mohedano-Suanes²,

Simón‐Moya³

2019

Sustainability

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“…The first issue is that, as previously discussed in the studies that use bricolage as a theoretical lens (Desa, 2012;Di Domenico et al, 2010;Janssen, Fayolle, & Wuilaume, 2018), the making do by recombining resources at hand, improvisation, persuasion, and purposeful disregard of limitations imposed by social norms are key in the transformation of entrepreneurs' personal endowment to organizational endowment in the early stages of establishing a social-environmental enterprises. Similar to social value creation (e.g., Bacq, Ofstein, Kickul, & Gundry, 2015) and entrepreneurial value creation in general (Karnoe & Garud, 2003), these bricolage approaches also reflect entrepreneurs' ability to create something from nothing, that is, environmental value and products for the BOP. F I G U R E 1 Bricolage in environmental entrepreneurship narratives and storytelling of both market and non-market logic (Clough et al, 2019).…”

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Bricolage in environmental entrepreneurship: How environmental innovators “make do” at the bottom of the pyramid

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Previous studies have discussed extensively the development of business solutions in resource-constrained environments. However, understanding how local entrepreneurs engaged in environmental innovation can overcome resource constraints at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) remains an under-researched area. Under the theoretical framework of bricolage, this study thus adopts a cross-sector multiple case study approach to provide empirical evidence on how social and environmental entrepreneurs in Kenya design low-cost solutions to environmental problems and for people at the BOP. The study considers environmental bricolage as a method of innovation ingenuity for social-environmental entrepreneurs. Network, marketing, waste material, and skills and knowledge bricolage are identified as mechanisms for addressing resource challenges by social and environmental entrepreneurs when creating low-cost and superior-value solutions at the BOP. The study further highlights the critical role of boundary-spanning organizations, the government, external knowledge, and technology.

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“…Servantie and Rispal [15] note that many papers investigating social entrepreneurship and its processes emphasize bricolage as an important component [79][80][81][82][83][84]. Because this paper argues that when multiple sectors collaborate (e.g.…”

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Reviewing Effectuation and Bricolage in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship Multisector Collaborations

Rod

2020

IJBMR

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Purpose: Traditional perspectives are insufficient for understanding/framing Social Entrepreneurship Triple Helix arrangements. This paper explores the extent to which specific alternative theoretical perspectives of entrepreneurship might be evident in the context of social entrepreneurship 'ventures' through multisector collaboration amongst university, government and private sector partners. Design/methodology/approach: Within the past twenty years, more established economics-based views of entrepreneurial behavior have been complemented with several alternative theoretical perspectives for entrepreneurship research; including effectuation and entrepreneurial bricolage. This conceptual paper reviews these literatures against the context of multisector collaboration within the triple helix. Findings: Specifically, the paper discusses and illustrates the interplay of effectuation and social entrepreneurship given the fact that resource-constrained environments push social entrepreneurs to employ alternative strategies to compensate the more complex external conditions. Collaborative efforts deemed to be more social entrepreneurship in orientation appear to draw on effectuation and bricolage. Originality/value: With an emphasis on affordable loss rather than expected returns; strategic alliances and collaboration rather than competitive analysis; exploitation of contingencies rather than exploitation of pre-existing knowledge; and controlling an unpredictable future rather than predicting an uncertain one, effectuation and bricolage in the context of social entrepreneurship requires quite different guiding policies. Not necessarily being as resource-constrained, but certainly attempting to address complex societal or social issues, multisector collaboration through social entrepreneurship appears to be a fruitful arena for the application of effectuation and bricolage.

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Bricolage in Social Entrepreneurship

Cited by 86 publications

References 28 publications

Crowdfunding and Social Entrepreneurship: Spotlight on Intermediaries

Crowdfunding and Social Entrepreneurship: Spotlight on Intermediaries

Bricolage in environmental entrepreneurship: How environmental innovators “make do” at the bottom of the pyramid

Reviewing Effectuation and Bricolage in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship Multisector Collaborations

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