Title | Bricolage – a mindset of resourcefulness: Stories as a vehicle for mediating means into resources |
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Type | Journal article |
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Authors | Lassila, S., Rieple, A. and Ennis, C. |
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Abstract | This study builds on the notion of viewing bricolage as a mindset of resourcefulness rather than seeing it only as a resource integration or resource scarcity. Particularly, we study service innovation processes to shed light on how entrepreneurs use stories of their experience and interactions as a vehicle for mediating means into resources. In order to understand how particular stories contribute to service innovation processes we adopt a process-based methodology (Langley, 1999; Van de Ven & Huber, 1990). Our study shows how a certain knowledge base and a worldview enabled the entrepreneur to understand the power of his own experiences, turn them into opportunities and utilise them as a source for stories of entrepreneurial outcomes. These stories then in turn mediated the available means into resources in various ways. |
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Keywords | Bricolage |
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| resourcefulness |
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| entrepreneurial stories |
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Journal | eSignals Research |
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ISSN | 2736-9323 |
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Year | 2021 |
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Publisher | Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences |
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Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Publisher's version | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Web address (URL) | https://esignals.fi/research/en/2021/04/06/bricolage-a-mindset-of-resourcefulness-stories-as-a-vehicle-for-mediating-means-into-resources/#f71dc0c4 |
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Publication dates |
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Published | 06 Apr 2021 |
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Supplemental file | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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