The Rural Development Regulation (RDR) within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as an exemplary manifestation of the New Rural Development Paradigm, has achieved significant results. Nevertheless, it has increasingly become liable to institutional complexity and central control in an emerging system – discussed as ‘the project state’ or ‘projectified world’ in recent literature. The interse...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) and bricolage behavior, considering two emerging dimensions IEO measurement: passion perseverance. Design/methodology/approach A total 187 postgraduate students who have recently started a new business were selected as research sample. This study aimed explore multidimension...

This paper entertains the notion that software maintenance and innovation are more closely related than is commonly accepted. We consider perspectives where innovation projects are understood as attempts to engineer both the social and the technological, where processes of innovation imply the configuring of users, communities, and artifacts through the work of maintenance, manifest perhaps as ...

Digitally Enabled Social Innovation (DESI) has generated a variety of important social benefits for communities across the globe. Yet, despite its importance in contemporary society, our review of the literature indicates that the concept has not been studied to a significant degree to date. To address this gap, this study seeks to address the research question: how do communities self-organize...

Smart technologies and progressive automation raise questions concerning the use of such technologies. The design challenge to enhance usability cannot be seen apart from the broader societal, and ethical concern of how technologies are accommodated in a way of living. The designer’s tinkering to improve usability, is therefore an ethically relevant practice, as is the consumers engagement with...

This paper reports a longitudinal study of the design and implementation of a Web-based groupware application. We studied the development of three versions of the application, and the preliminary discussions of the forth. We adopt a sensemaking perspective to analyze the dynamics of this process and show that improvisational action and bricolage (make do with the materials at hand) played a vit...

Commercial software firms are increasingly becoming involved with open source communities. In this research-in-progress paper I briefly analysed a single firm case that demonstrates how an institutional entrepreneur mixes in an innovative way different discourses in an attempt to legitimise a new mode for developing software applying both open and closed source codes. The institutional entrepre...

This paper examines two social enterprises and 25+ informal economy micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya who utilize waste materials to generate income, considered through the conceptual lens of bricolage. Waste materials can all be considered as sources of free or discounted materials that in resource-constrained and poor communities might be leveraged to generate income in the absence of employment. ...

This study examines how social entrepreneurs mobilize resources to innovate in divided urban settings. Over a period of two years, we followed four start-up the city Cape Town, South Africa, characterized by some highest inequality levels world. We analyzed navigate this context from both resource-affluent and resource-constrained spaces achieve innovation. Our findings suggest that these use b...

The public sector frequently confronts a heightened societal turbulence triggered by an increasing number of unpredictable and disruptive economic, political, environmental crises. How can the respond to this challenge? This article argues, first, that continue provide relevant solutions, governance must be robust in sense adapting innovating policies, programs, services ways facilitate achieve...