...Samuel Wayne Appleton; Diane Holt Purpose The purpose of this paper was to explore the human condition of social bricoleur entrepreneurs and the role they perform in their contexts. The result of a lifetime performing such a role reveals the importance of various forms of bricolage...

... interests: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. 06 02 2025 06 06 2025 24 06 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Bricolage Effectuation Motivation Necessity-driven entrepreneurship...

...Coralie Helleputte; Anaïs Périlleux Purpose Social enterprises (SEs) are increasingly expected to rely on formal methodologies to assess their social impact. These structured methodologies, which produce objective and evidence-based measures of impact, are sometimes opposed to bricolage approaches...

... on social entrepreneurship in Africa emerged – institutions, embedding values, entrepreneurial behaviour and bricolage and scaling impact – each with its own considerations of how African contexts may challenge predominant assumptions in the extant social entrepreneurship literature, as well as implications...

...Chamindika Weerakoon; Byron Gales; Adela J. McMurray Purpose Mainstream entrepreneurship research tends to adopt either the causation or effectuation perspective in their studies. Yet, the social enterprise literature has largely focussed on the bricolage perspective to explain social...

... for a limited demand for loans by comparing two theoretical perspectives on SE development. The concept of “social bricolage” implies SEs do not seek conventional business loans or equity finance, because they survive in resource poor environments by improvising and re‐using redundant capital. A second...