Entrepreneurial Bricolage (Senyard)
StrategyReliability: alpha 0.853 sample items
About this scale
An 8-item measure of entrepreneurial bricolage — making do with whatever is at hand to solve problems and exploit opportunities.
Sample item(s)
“We are confident of our ability to find workable solutions to new challenges by using our existing resources”
“When dealing with new problems we apply a combination of our existing resources and other resources we get inexpensively”
“We use our existing networks and contacts to find solutions to new challenges”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.85. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Senyard, J., Baker, T., Steffens, P., & Davidsson, P. (2014): Bricolage as a path to innovativeness for resource-constrained new firms. Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 211–230.
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