Résumé
In organizations facing ever more frequent crises (financial, ecological, Covid-19), forced to reduce their ecological footprint and costs, bricolage (Lévi-Strauss, 1966) is a possible response to deal with crises, hazards and resource scarcity. The literature review on bricolage shows a triple gap: a lack of studies exploring and developing the bricolage concept based on Lévi-Strauss’s original writings, a collective or multi-level bricolage that is little theorized, and conditions of success or failure of bricolage little studied. This article aims to enrich the knowledge on these three points through a review of the literature. After exploring the concept of bricolage and its similarities with related notions (improvisation, innovation, creativity, etc.), we identify the initial conditions and the investments of form that favor collective or multi-level (individual, collective, network, strategic) bricolage dynamics, which have a positive impact on the organization while limiting the risks. In summary, we propose a simplified model of the dynamics of multi-level bricolage. Besides the managerial and didactic implications, this paper opens several research avenues.