From emergence to maturity: contextually embedded resource mobilization in social enterprises
研究了社会企业在不同发展阶段如何通过拼凑、效果逻辑和因果逻辑三种创业实践来动员资源,发现效果逻辑在涌现期主导,拼凑在成长期和成熟期更突出,且实践类型因国家制度环境而异。
This study examines how resources are mobilized by social enterprises, in day-to-day activities, across different stages of development. Based on an abductive qualitative analysis of 25 in-depth case studies in two different institutional contexts of social entrepreneurship (France and Tunisia), findings show that resource mobilization involves a combination of three entrepreneurial logics: bricolage, effectuation, and causation. The use of these practices varies across developmental stages, with effectuation predominating during emergence and bricolage becoming more salient during growth and maturity, contributing to organizational consolidation and long-term viability. The study also allows the extension of new types of practices of bricolage, such as intellectual bricolage. Last, it implies that practices of resource acquisition at different growth stages of the venture may also vary across national institutional contexts of social entrepreneurship.