Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions

Greg Fisher

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2024, vol. 48, issue 4, 911-940

Abstract: Prior research highlights how entrepreneurs depend on resourceful actions to overcome constraints in value-creation situations. Yet, most resourcefulness research has examined its external manifestations. To complement this, I examine the cognitive and embodied sensemaking process that underpins resourceful actions. Using an autoethnography of a 1430-mile mountain bike ride across South Africa, I distill a microfoundational sensemaking perspective underpinning resourcefulness, highlighting how actors who confront resource-constrained situations find creative ways to overcome such constraints to move forward in their endeavors. Furthermore, I specify how resourcefulness is impacted by priming, learning, and contagion within a challenging context.

Keywords: entrepreneurial resourcefulness; sensemaking; autoethnography; enactment; bricolage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/10422587231205321

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