The Role of Bricolage and Innovation Ecology in Catalytic Innovation

Abstract

The aim of social entrepreneurship is to provide solutions to challenging problems experienced by the communities. Scalable and sustainable approaches -catalytic innovations- present ‘good enough’ solutions to resolve social problems that are not addressed by enterprises using traditional approaches. Passionate and creative social entrepreneurs acquire and recombine existing resources -bricolage- to provide good enough solutions to problems and bringing social change that benefit their communities. Financial support and sustainability are the biggest reported challenges facing social enterprises in Pakistan. The paper proposes conceptual model which can be used to conduct empirical study in the social entrepreneurship sector. Themodeling is developed on the basis of empirical study and concepts related to Passion, creativity, entrepreneurial bricolage, catalytic innovation and moderating influence of innovation ecology that can be used to increase the performance of social enterprises.