Start-up’s Performance: An Empirical Study on Dynamic Capabilities Under The Contributions of Bricolage and Social Capital: Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference

This paper examines how a new venture builds and shapes dynamic capabilities through the contributions made by the bricolage and social capital of a management team based upon data drawn from an online survey of 221 new ventures in the UK. The results show that by using resources at hand and exploiting social capital a management team is likely to improve the development and application of dynamic capabilities, which in turn increase a new venture’s performance.

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