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Small Business Economics
Published in: Small Business Economics 3/2020

21-05-2019

Effectuations, social bricolage and causation in the response to a natural disaster

Authors: Reed Nelson, Edmilson Lima

Published in: Small Business Economics | Issue 3/2020

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Abstract

This research uses the experience of residents and a local neighborhood association in Brazil before, during, and after a major natural disaster to examine entrepreneurial action in response to a major environmental jolt. When the community of Córrego d’Antas was hit by deadly mudslides in January of 2011, residents responded over time with combinations of different varieties of effectuation, social bricolage, and gradually more causation, supporting grassroots recovery efforts. We deepen inquiry into the intersection between entrepreneurship and disaster recovery using a temporal approach, involving alternate templates and more inductive analyses. Our results include new concepts, such as diseffectuation and extended effectuation, and a deeper understanding of the relation between effectuation and bricolage that may prove useful for the study of entrepreneurial action during crises and recuperation. We close with modest propositions connecting disaster recovery and entrepreneurship.
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LNAs are grassroots organizations that are locally based and autonomous, counting on volunteers and nonprofit groups (Smith 1997). The central roles of LNAs are empowering citizens in community and intermediating their relations with different kinds of stakeholders, mainly government and public agencies (Chaskin 2003). They often aim at improving conditions in their neighborhoods, and are typically led by local community members (Meyer and Hyde 2004). They are numerous and important agents of democratic and economic improvement (Chaskin 2003; Houtzager and Acharya 2011; Putnam 2000).
 
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Metadata
Title
Effectuations, social bricolage and causation in the response to a natural disaster
Authors
Reed Nelson
Edmilson Lima
Publication date
21-05-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Small Business Economics / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00150-z

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