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How high-tech entrepreneurs bricole the evolution of business process management for their activities

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  • Severine Le Loarne

    (MTS - Management Technologique et Strategique - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management)

  • Adnane Maalaoui

    (ESG Paris – School of Business)

Abstract

Purpose: This paper focuses on how entrepreneurs anticipate and change their company's business process management after developing a radical innovation. The paper is based on a critical approach to business process modelling (BPM) that posits that—in spite of all the claims, guides, and tools that companies employ to help them modelise their processes—business processes are developed and improved (or at least changed) by individuals who negotiate, anticipate, and compromise to make these changes occur. Thus, BPM is more a matter of "bricolage" (Levi-Strauss) than an established and defined plan. Based on this position, our paper analyses how a business process model emerges in the early phases of a high tech new venture when the entrepreneur lacks a valid template to form a conceptual representation of the firm's business processes. Design/Methodology/Approach: We adopt a perspective based on the concept of bricolage. By analysing and comparing the discourse of 40 entrepreneurs—20 involved in an activity based on a radical innovation and 20 involved in an activity based on a more incremental concept—we are able to answer the two research questions.

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  • Severine Le Loarne & Adnane Maalaoui, 2015. "How high-tech entrepreneurs bricole the evolution of business process management for their activities," Post-Print hal-01107743, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01107743
    DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-03-2014-0024
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    1. David Vallat, 2015. "Une alternative au dualisme État-Marché : l’économie collaborative, questions pratiques et épistémologiques," Working Papers halshs-01249308, HAL.
    2. Séverine Le Loarne Lemaire & Meriam Razgallah & Adnane Maalaoui & Sascha Kraus, 2022. "Becoming a green entrepreneur: An advanced entrepreneurial cognition model based on a practiced-based approach," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 801-828, June.
    3. Brocke, Jan vom & Zelt, Sarah & Schmiedel, Theresa, 2016. "On the role of context in business process management," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 486-495.
    4. Vinciane Servantie & Martine Hlady-Rispal, 2022. "Born globals’ decision-making logics during their entrepreneurial process," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 255-281, June.
    5. Scuotto, V. & Le Loarne Lemaire, S. & Magni, D. & Maalaoui, A., 2022. "Extending knowledge-based view: Future trends of corporate social entrepreneurship to fight the gig economy challenges," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 1111-1122.

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    Keywords

    Entrepreneurship; Business Process Modelling; Strategy as Practice; Bricolage; Discourse Analysis;
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