Optimization or Bricolage? Overcoming Resource Constraints in Global Social Entrepreneurship
研究了社会企业如何通过优化和拼凑两种方式获取关键资源，发现环境丰裕度和组织知名度与拼凑使用呈U型关系，与优化使用呈正相关，基于42国202家科技社会企业的数据。
Resources play a vital role in the development of an entrepreneurial venture. For ventures operating in the public interest, the process of effective resource mobilization can be especially critical to the social mission. However, there has been limited empirical examination of the approaches used by social ventures to mobilize critical resources. We study two processes of resource mobilization—optimization and bricolage, and examine the antecedent conditions that influence a venture's selection of these processes. Our theory predicts that environmental munificence and organizational prominence have U‐shaped associations with the use of bricolage and positive associations with the use of optimization. We test our hypotheses on a sample of 202 technology social ventures from 42 countries and discuss implications for the social entrepreneurship and broader entrepreneurship literatures. Copyright © 2013 Strategic Management Society.