Optimization or Bricolage? Overcoming Resource Constraints in Global Social Entrepreneurship

By G. Desa, S. Basu. 2013

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Individual capital and social entrepreneurship: Role of formal institutions (2020, background): “Owing to the limited financial returns they make, social entrepreneurs may choose or be forced to rely more on their network of contacts and social capital for accessing the necessary resources (Austin et al., 2006; Desa & Basu, 2013).”
Dynamics of Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding: Using a Social Responsibility Lens (2018, background): “Yet, many entrepreneurs being small and unestablished struggle to attain financing from these traditional sources and must instead pursue alternative ‘out-crowd’ (Polzin et al. 2018) financing options (Desa and Basu 2013), such as lending-based crowdfunding.”
Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, unknown): “For example, instead of hiring employees to fill skills gaps, bricoleurs would either learn those skills themselves (Baker & Nelson, 2005) or find volunteers to work for free (Desa & Basu, 2013; Fisher, 2012).”
Bridging Behavioral Models and Theoretical Concepts: Effectuation and Bricolage in the Opportunity Creation Framework (2016, unknown): “In recent years, conceptual work has applied the concepts of bricolage as the theoretical underpinnings for entrepreneurial phenomena that resist the model of man as rational calculator (Di Domenico et al., 2010; Desa and Basu, 2013; Phillips and Tracey, 2007) and extended to inform research on econ”
Scaling Social Impact: Building Sustainable Social Ventures at the Base-of-the-Pyramid (2014, background): “…on the source discipline, scale can refer to organizational/revenue growth (entrepreneurship literature – e.g. Delmar, Davidsson, and Gartner 2003; Desa and Basu 2013), sector growth (non-profit management literature – e.g. Hammack 2001; Corbin 1999), expansion of reach to member/target groups…”
Deconstructing the Way in which Value Is Created in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship (2018, unknown): “Bricolage and effectuation are emergent concepts dedicated to the understanding of management systems and value creation (Desa and Basu 2013; Sarasvathy et al. 2013).”
Balancing a Hybrid Business Model: The Search for Equilibrium at Cafédirect (2018, background): “…impact of social mission on access to resources, social enterprises draw on novel resource acquisition strategies such as bricolage, where they create value by combining a range of existing but undervalued resources, e.g., relationships with beneficiaries (Desa and Basu 2013; Di Domenico et al.”
Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda (2020, background): “Amid a scarcity of resources, an effective mobilisation of resources is particularly critical for social enterprises (Desa & Basu, 2013).”
The Effect of Experiential Social Entrepreneurship Education on Intention Formation in Students (2018, background): “The role of perceived support is particularly relevant when considering social entrepreneurship in resource-constrained environments, as is often the case in developing countries (Desa and Basu, 2013).”