Building an Enterprise for the Future Through Network Bricolage and Memories of the Past
Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries: A Long Term Approach
ISBN: 978-1-80117-951-5, eISBN: 978-1-80117-950-8
Publication date: 11 July 2023
Abstract
This chapter explores how network bricolage, as a form of collective entrepreneurship, develops over time and influences the shape and form of an organization. Using a historical organization study of SEUR, a Spanish courier company founded in 1942, the authors show how network bricolage is implemented as a dynamic process of collaborative efforts between bricoleurs who draw on their historical experience to build and develop an organization. Our study offers two main contributions. In combining network bricolage with ideas of collective entrepreneurship, the authors first extend knowledge about the practice of bricolage and the role of the bricoleur in the entrepreneurial context beyond start-up. Second, the authors show that, while entrepreneurs’ decisions are historically contingent, it is how entrepreneurs wed past experience with current context which informs their actions in the present, shaping the enterprise for the future.
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Acknowledgements
Research has benefitted from public research project Spanish Project PGC201S8-093971-B-I00 granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation Programme for Knowledge Generation, funded by MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE
Citation
Gil-López, Á., San Román, E., Jack, S.L. and Zózimo, R. (2023), "Building an Enterprise for the Future Through Network Bricolage and Memories of the Past", Fernández Pérez, P. and San Román, E. (Ed.) Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries: A Long Term Approach (Frontiers of Management History), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 95-116. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-950-820231007
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