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Towards a theory of transitional bricolage

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article posits a theory of transitional bricolage using the marginalization of women entrepreneurs in home-based enterprises as an empirical platform. It offers a conceptualization of entrepreneurial transition as temporal flows of positional advancement (transitioning) to a transitioned post-bricolage state. Insight is offered into how women entrepreneurs transition from matters of survival to achieving greater sufficiency for their families through entrepreneurship. Moreover, it exposes how women entrepreneurs creatively learn to work around constraining factors in society relating to underpinning gender, cultural, and religious marginalization to achieve positional advancement. Findings provide support for bricolage as a mechanism to achieve economic advancement, even where social marginalization remains elusive.

Source: Journal of Small Business Management

DOI: 10.1080/00472778.2025.2569591

Authors: Noor Muhammad, John D. Nicholson, Andrew Johnston

Institution: University of Huddersfield

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, No poverty

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,500