Effectuation, Causation, and Bricolage: A Behavioral Comparison of Emerging Theories in Entrepreneurship Research

By G. Fisher. 2012

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

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A bricolage perspective on service innovation (2017, background): “We posit that bricolage is built on the four following capabilities: (i) actively addressing resource scarcity, (ii) making do with what is available, (iii) improvising when recombining resources, and (iv) networking with external partners (Baker & Nelson, 2005; Fisher, 2012; Linna, 2013).”
Effectuation As Ineffectual? Applying the 3E Theory-Assessment Framework to a Proposed New Theory of Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “Effectual entrepreneurs embrace unexpected events, turn them into profitable opportunities, and thus arrive at unexpected outcomes (Fisher, 2012).”
Entrepreneurial Imaginativeness in New Venture Ideation (2018, background): “…predicated on interacting with others and engaging with stakeholders (McMullen, 2015; Sarasvathy & Dew, 2005), entrepreneurs must use their social imaginativeness to “discover new means and establish new goals that allow for revaluation of means and possible courses of action” (Fisher, 2012: 1026).”
Bridging Behavioral Models and Theoretical Concepts: Effectuation and Bricolage in the Opportunity Creation Framework (2016, neutral): “While seemingly tackling the same research question and often cited together, these three frameworks are rarely, if ever, analyzed jointly (Archer, Baker, and Mauer, 2009; Fisher, 2012).”
Effectuation, Exploratory Learning and New Venture Performance: Evidence from China** (2017, background): “Effectuation is a formative construct that consists of four dimensions: experimentation, affordable loss, flexibility and pre-commitments and strategic alliance (Chandler et al. 2011; Fisher 2012).”
Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation : a process study of effectuation and causation (2015, background): “…surveys (e.g., Chandler et al., 2011; Brettel et al., 2012; Politis, Winborg, and Dahlstrand, 2012) and field studies (e.g., Corner and Ho, 2010; Fisher, 2012), but always at a single moment in time or by treating the whole entrepreneurial journey as a single observation (see Perry et al., 2012…”
Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Mindset, and Career Readiness in Secondary Students (2020, background): “A growing theme in entrepreneurship theory suggests that startups often evolve their business models through constant experimentation, learning, and revising (Fisher, 2012; Sarasvathy, 2001).”
Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action (2018, background): “In a sense, complex environments present some of the same challenges effectuation is designed to address as the problem of emergence in complex environments often prevents effective forecasting or prediction (Fisher, 2012; Read, Dew, Sarasvathy, Song, &Wiltbank, 2009).”
Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, positive): “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).”
Effectuation and foreign market entry of entrepreneurial firms (2015, background): “In fact, there is recent evidence suggesting that effectuation explains the actions of entrepreneurs better than causation (see e.g. Fisher, 2012).”
Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs (2016, background): “First, how do entrepreneurs operate (and if so how) in resource-constrained environments (RCE)? This question is usually addressed by bricolage literature, which theorizes how entrepreneurs or MNCs overcome scarcity by “making do with what is at hand” [29–33].”
Effectuation or causation as the key to corporate venture success? Investigating effects of entrepreneurial behaviors on business model innovation and venture performance (2017, background): “Effectuation and causation (E&C) (Sarasvathy, 2001) are two promising behavioral logics for achieving BMI that have recently been discussed by a large plenum of entrepreneurship (Fisher, 2012) and innovation management researchers (Berends et al., 2014).”