Social enterprises (SEs) primarily aim to create social value, that is, to generate benefits or reduce costs for society, while maintaining financial sustainability. Owing to their unique operating conditions and organizational characteristics, SEs face more severe resource challenges than their commercial counterparts. These challenges are exacerbated for SEs operating in emerging economies with complex social contexts. Overcoming these resource constraints and social challenges is vital for SEs to achieve their mission. Using an inductive multiple case-study approach, we identify a unique bricolage solution for achieving the dual objectives of SEs. Our findings suggest that identifying locally embedded village level entrepreneurs is a bricolage activity that social entrepreneurs leverage in the resource constrained environment of emerging economies, especially for the social enterprises that are active in the villages but were founded by social entrepreneurs who are not from these villages. This article therefore contributes to both social entrepreneurship literature as well as entrepreneurial bricolage literature and has important implications for future research and practice.

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采用 Bricolage 克服资源限制：印度农村社会企业案例

社会企业（SEs）的主要目标是创造社会价值，即为社会创造利益或降低成本，同时保持财务可持续性。由于其独特的经营条件和组织特征，社会企业面临比商业同行更严峻的资源挑战。对于在社会环境复杂的新兴经济体运营的社企来说，这些挑战更加严峻。克服这些资源限制和社会挑战对于社会企业实现其使命至关重要。使用归纳多案例研究方法，我们确定了一种独特的拼凑解决方案，以实现 SE 的双重目标。我们的研究结果表明，识别本地嵌入村级企业家是社会企业家在新兴经济体资源有限的环境中利用的拼凑活动，特别是对于活跃在村庄但由非来自这些村庄的社会企业家创立的社会企业而言。因此，本文对社会创业文学和创业拼凑文学都有贡献，对未来的研究和实践具有重要意义。