The merits and limits of making do: bricolage and breakdowns in a social enterprise

Ladstaetter, Florian; Plank, Andreas; Hemetsberger, Andrea

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“…Thus, social enterprise context specific literature proposes different strategies for resourcing where sustainability has been at the core. Some of these resource-based researches have borrowed theories such as resource bricolage from for-profit context and contextualized the theories to predict social enterprise research context (Ladstaetter et al, 2018). Further, rather than competing with each other just as for-profit organizations, social enterprise research suggests “co-petition” which emphasizes the need of strategizing for resources by building effective connections with other social enterprises in the field (Littlewood & Khan, 2018).…”

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Sustainability in Social Enterprise Research: A Systematic Literature Review

2022

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Given the noteworthy contribution to the global socio-economic development, research on social enterprises (SE) has gained prominence over past two decades. Making a clear departure from for-profit counterparts, the core purpose of SEs is to deliver a social mission while at the same time staying financially viable and as a consequence, “sustainability” is strongly embedded in their core drive of existence. Rapidly sprouting body of literature on SE posits that “sustainability” is intensely coincided with “social enterprises.” Although “sustainability” has been a buzz word in the context of SE, lacking of systematization and categorization of knowledge hinders the advancement of SE specific research. Consequently, the primary objective of this paper is systematization and categorization of the extant knowledge on sustainability in SE research context. The study carried-out a systematic literature survey from reputed databases; Scopus, Social Science Citation Index and Science Direct. Removing the repetitions, 136 papers on sustainability was compiled for analysis. The analytical approach was two-fold: First, a citation analysis was performed in order to evaluate the prominent, emerging and popular sustainability-based research areas in the extant body of knowledge in the field. Second, a thematic analysis was performed to analyze and interpret explicit themes on which sustainability concept has been investigated. Paper discovered six themes that the sustainability concept has been researched through significant research popularity disparities can be witnessed among the discovered themes. Since this paper identifies several research gaps and inconsistencies, it noticeably sets path for future research on the concept of sustainability in SE.

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Sustainability in Social Enterprise Research: A Systematic Literature Review

2022

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“…Noticeably, given bricolage's potential drawbacks, for example, “second best solutions, maladaptation, imperfection, inefficiency, incompleteness, slowness” (Ladstaetter et al, 2018; Lanzara, 1999, p.347), and “failure to engage with competent suppliers and demanding customers” (Senyard et al, 2014, p. 215), it may not be a panacea in all circumstances (Guo et al, 2018; Steffens et al, 2022), which will discourage firms from using it to gain competitive advantage and provide social value (Desa, 2008).…”

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How bricolage influences green management in high‐polluting manufacturing firms: The role of stakeholder engagement

Liang

Liu

2022

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As green management (GM) matters not only for firms' competitiveness but also has social and health benefits, both the public and government often expect firms to apply it. However, the current literature fails to provide a detailed explanation of how emerging market firms in high‐polluting manufacturing (HPM) industries deal with challenges when applying GM activities, even though these firms may be a key source of environmental problems. To address this research gap, we draw upon a subjectivist view of resource construction to investigate how and when HPM firms in emerging economies can rely on the tactic of bricolage to boost GM. We tested our research model on a sample of 180 chemical engineering manufacturing firms in China. Our results showed that HPM firms can rely on bricolage to positively implement GM, but its effects depend on the participation of different stakeholders. That is, firms can benefit more from bricolage in implementing GM when their suppliers can provide strong technical support and the moral requirements of the public are high. This study highlights the role of subjective resource construction activities in GM with the help of different stakeholder's participation in emerging economies and provides novel explanations and policy implications for this emerging phenomenon.

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“…Review of extant literature also highlights a stream of work studying the effects of bricolage on social ventures growth and the possible mission drift encountered by these ventures. Such as Ladstaetter, Plank and Hemetsberger (2018) in their study on a social enterprise Die Bäckerei that embodies bricolage behavior showed that the potentially conflicting social and economic goals can lead to break downs in social enterprises due to diverging standards for evaluation of their performance resulting from diverging interpretations of their organizational identity. In their study they showed that bricolage can serve both as a cause and a way out for temporary breakdowns while complete breakdowns call for more planning on part of practitioners than they normally do as it imposes a limit to bricolage approach of doing routine business.…”

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“…However, most of the studies on bricolage in social entrepreneurship till date are concentrated in developed countries and relatively stable contexts with few exceptions. Literature review also shows that although the social entrepreneurs usually wok in resource scarce environments around the globe but these resource constraints become more extensive and severe in case of developing countries marked by extreme poverty, lack of infrastructure and political and economic support (Bacq et al, 2015) therefore there is need for further empirical studies to explore how bricolage uniquely unfolds ( Ladstaetter et al, 2018) particularly in a developing country's context and the underlying mechanism that social ventures use to mobilize the scarce resources. I www.irmbrjournal.com…”

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“…Considering the fact that one of the main characteristic of social entrepreneurial ventures is their ability to combine the resources in an innovative way (Mair & Marti, 2006) it can be argued that bricolage theory provides a useful lens to analyze the resource constraints of such ventures (Bacq et al 2015;Ladstaetter et al, 2018;Servantie & Rispal, 2018).Particularly ‗social bricolage' theory better fits the nature of social entrepreneurial ventures (Ciambotti & Pedrini, 2019;Di Domenico et al,2010;Janssen et al 2018;Ladstaetter et al,2018).Also it is evident from the literature reviewed so far, that much of the debate in social entrepreneurship revolves around network bricolage, entrepreneurial bricolage and intrapreneurial bricolage while there is dearth of studies specifically employing the theoretical lens of social bricolage to study the resource mobilization by social entrepreneurs. Also the additional constructs of social bricolage as proposed by Di Domenico et al(2010) i.e.…”

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Unfolding Bricolage in Social Entrepreneurship: A Way Forward for Future Research

Noor¹,

Shah²,

Kakakhel³

2020

IRMBR

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Social entrepreneurship has been recently becoming center of attention for academicians and practitioners. It is mainly because of its critical role in addressing unmet needs and social problems of underprivileged communities around the globe. Social entrepreneurs are often confronted with the scarcity of resources as they are inherently located in resource constrained settings. Given the scarcity of resources and the crucial role of social entrepreneurship, bricolage is emerging as a promising strategy to address resource scarcity in impoverished settings. In this vein, this paper provides a comprehensive review of literature on bricolage and how it unfolds in social entrepreneurship. The review also sheds light on the conceptual evolution of bricolage and how it invades the entrepreneurship literature. A systematic approach was adopted for conducting the literature search in order to capture all the recent work on bricolage in context of social entrepreneurship. The review shows that most of the studies on bricolage in context of social entrepreneurship are concentrated in developed countries and more stable environments with only few exceptions. Also social bricolage theory which is an extension of entrepreneurial bricolage is still understudied and needs further investigation and documentation. The paper holds particular relevance for academicians and researchers as it provides useful insights into concepts of bricolage and its relevance to social entrepreneurship. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Bricolage, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Bricolage.

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The merits and limits of making do: bricolage and breakdowns in a social enterprise

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Sustainability in Social Enterprise Research: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainability in Social Enterprise Research: A Systematic Literature Review

How bricolage influences green management in high‐polluting manufacturing firms: The role of stakeholder engagement

Unfolding Bricolage in Social Entrepreneurship: A Way Forward for Future Research

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