Creating Something from Nothing¶
Baker, T., & Nelson, R. E. (2005). Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(3), 329-366.
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Primes¶
- Bricolage
- A chef trained in working with whatever arrived that morning thinks like a producer crate-digging for samples and like a post-disaster engineer specifying purification from local stock; a theorist who has internalised Lévi-Strauss reads software kludges as the same structural object as ritual bricolage; a frugal-innovation mechanic understands why minimum-viable-product entrepreneurship works.
This sourceDefines entrepreneurial bricolage as making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems, with the recombinatorial sequence transferring across resource-constrained settings.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract defines entrepreneurial bricolage via Lévi-Strauss's making-do concept, supporting the general frame but not the specific chef, producer, engineer, software-kludge, or MVP analogies.
“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.”
- A chef trained in working with whatever arrived that morning thinks like a producer crate-digging for samples and like a post-disaster engineer specifying purification from local stock; a theorist who has internalised Lévi-Strauss reads software kludges as the same structural object as ritual bricolage; a frugal-innovation mechanic understands why minimum-viable-product entrepreneurship works.
Domain-specific¶
- Entrepreneurial Bricolage
- Baker and Nelson formalised this in 2005 by importing Lévi-Strauss's anthropological concept of the bricoleur — the craftsman who works "with whatever is at hand" rather than from purpose-designed inputs — into entrepreneurship research, and grounded it empirically in studies of firms operating in resource-poor environments
This sourceReports a field study of 29 resource-constrained firms and imports Lévi-Strauss’s bricolage, defined as making do with what is at hand, into a formal definition of entrepreneurial bricolage. Entrepreneurship - the named home: resource-poor founders building ventures from the elements at hand, with the field's own refinements arriving later. Baker and Nelson's field study: firms in the same resource-poor environments responded in dramatically different ways, and the bricoleurs kept operating.
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“we advance a formal definition of entrepreneurial bricolage”
- Baker and Nelson formalised this in 2005 by importing Lévi-Strauss's anthropological concept of the bricoleur — the craftsman who works "with whatever is at hand" rather than from purpose-designed inputs — into entrepreneurship research, and grounded it empirically in studies of firms operating in resource-poor environments
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