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  • Bricolage as a Path to Innovativeness for Resource-Constrained New Firms

    Author(s)
    Senyard, Julienne
    Baker, Ted
    Steffens, Paul
    Davidsson, Per
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Senyard, Julienne M.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    Evidence suggests that both nascent and young firms (henceforth: “new firms”)—despite typically being small and resource‐constrained—are sometimes able to innovate effectively. Such firms are seldom able to invest in lengthy and expensive development processes, which suggests that they may frequently rely instead on other pathways to generate innovativeness within the firm. In this paper, we develop and test arguments that “bricolage,” defined as making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems and opportunities, provides an important pathway to achieve innovation for new resource‐constrained firms. ...
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    Evidence suggests that both nascent and young firms (henceforth: “new firms”)—despite typically being small and resource‐constrained—are sometimes able to innovate effectively. Such firms are seldom able to invest in lengthy and expensive development processes, which suggests that they may frequently rely instead on other pathways to generate innovativeness within the firm. In this paper, we develop and test arguments that “bricolage,” defined as making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems and opportunities, provides an important pathway to achieve innovation for new resource‐constrained firms. Through bricolage, resource‐constrained firms engage in the processes of “recombination” that are core to creating innovative outcomes. Based on a large longitudinal dataset, our results suggest that variations in the degree to which firms engage in bricolage behaviors can provide a broadly applicable explanation of innovativeness under resource constraints by new firms. We find no general support for our competing hypothesis that the positive effects may level off or even turn negative at high levels of bricolage.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Product Innovation Management
    Volume
    31
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12091
    Subject
    Business and Management
    Engineering
    Built Environment and Design
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/141622
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