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Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage

Administrative science quarterly, 2005-09, Vol.50 (3), p.329-366 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 2005 Johnson Graduate School, Cornell University ;2005 Johnson Graduate School, Cornell University ;Copyright Cornell University, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration Sep 2005 ;ISSN: 0001-8392 ;EISSN: 1930-3815 ;DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2005.50.3.329 ;CODEN: ASCQAG

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Title:
Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage
Author: Baker, Ted ; Nelson, Reed E.
Subjects: Administrative science ; Art dealing ; Automobile sales ; Billing ; Business models ; Business structures ; Business studies ; Coal mining ; Creativity ; Customers ; Economic resources ; Empirical research ; Entrepreneurs ; Entrepreneurship ; Institutions ; Natural resources ; Organization theory ; Organizational behavior ; Real estate sales ; Regression analysis ; Resources ; Small Businesses ; Social construction ; Strategic planning ; Strauss, Levi (1829?-1902) ; Studies
Is Part Of: Administrative science quarterly, 2005-09, Vol.50 (3), p.329-366
Description: A field study of 29 resource-constrained firms that varied dramatically in their responses to similar objective environments is used to examine the process by which entrepreneurs in resource-poor environments were able to render unique services by recombining elements at hand for new purposes that challenged institutional definitions and limits. We found that Lévi-Strauss's concept of bricolage-making do with what is at hand-explained many of the behaviors we observed in small firms that were able to create something from nothing by exploiting physical, social, or institutional inputs that other firms rejected or ignored. We demonstrate the socially constructed nature of resource environments and the role of bricolage in this construction. Using our field data and the existing literature on bricolage, we advance a formal definition of entrepreneurial bricolage and induce the beginnings of a process model of bricolage and firm growth. Central to our contribution is the notion that companies engaging in bricolage refuse to enact the limitations imposed by dominant definitions of resource environments, suggesting that, for understanding entrepreneurial behavior, a constructivist approach to resource environments is more fruitful than objectivist views.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA: Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0001-8392
EISSN: 1930-3815
DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2005.50.3.329
CODEN: ASCQAG
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage

Copyright 2005 Johnson Graduate School, Cornell University ;2005 Johnson Graduate School, Cornell University ;Copyright Cornell University, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration Sep 2005 ;ISSN: 0001-8392 ;EISSN: 1930-3815 ;DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2005.50.3.329 ;CODEN: ASCQAG

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