Abstract
This study develops a process model that explains how organisational bricolage unfolds under prolonged resource scarcity and enables strategic renewal, drawing on a historical case study of the Sun Sun Department Store in wartime Shanghai. While existing research recognises bricolage as an effective response to resource scarcity, little is known about its evolution and long-term consequences when scarcity persists. Our analysis reveals that bricolage neither recedes nor remains unchanged under prolonged scarcity, but unfolds through three dominant forms: survival, value-enhancing and repositioning bricolage. Transitions are shaped by environmental changes and the cumulative effects of prior practices. This study advances organisational bricolage research by clarifying the evolving nature of bricolage rather than treating it as a temporary or static response. It also contributes to strategic renewal research by showing how successive forms of bricolage generate conditions for organisation-wide reconfiguration, thereby realising renewal through an alternative pathway.