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Reframing bricolage as a way of inhabiting the world: Beyond scarcity and innovation with Lévi-Strauss
This paper reframes the concept of bricolage by returning to its foundational roots in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s seminal 1962 work, The Savage Mind. By conducting a systematic review of entrepreneurial bricolage, which represents more than two thirds of management research on bricolage, alongside a close reading of Lévi-Strauss, we uncover three cor…
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Raffi Duymedjian, Frank Janssen, Sophie Bacq and
Guillaume Ferrante
30 September 2026, ePub before print, https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70168
Reframing bricolage as a way of inhabiting the world: Beyond scarcity and innovation with Lévi-Strauss
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This paper reframes the concept of bricolage by returning to its foundational roots in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s seminal 1962 work, The Savage Mind. By conducting a systematic review of entrepreneurial bricolage, which represents more than two thirds of management research on bricolage, alongside a close reading of Lévi-Strauss, we uncover three cor…
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