Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises

Battilana, Julie; Lee, Matthew

doi:10.1080/19416520.2014.893615

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“…From this perspective, social enterprise exemplifies hybrid organizing, in which rival institutional logicsshared meaning systems that confer legitimacy upon particular goals and practices (Thornton, Ocasio, & Lounsbury, 2012) -are integrated into an organization. This work argues that: (1) social enterprises integrate aspects of commercial and social welfare logics and (2) because it is often difficult to pursue the financial and social goals associated with these logics concurrently, social enterprises are more highly disposed to conflict and tension than other organizations (Battilana & Lee, 2014;Besharov & Smith, 2014;Smith, Gonin, & Besharov, 2013) 1 . In particular, studies have found that conflicts arise when coalitions within or outside of the organization support different logics and spar over which should be prioritized (Battilana & Dorado, 2010;Pache & Santos, 2013).…”

Section: An Identity-based Approach To Social Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While a single definition has yet to emerge, most agree that social enterprise entails the integration of social welfare and commercial aims in an organization's core (Battilana & Lee, 2014;Miller, Grimes, McMullen, & Vogus, 2012). For example, Work Integration Social Enterprises create income by moving at-risk populations into employment (Pache & Santos, 2013), microfinance generates revenue by extending loans to the poor (Battilana & Dorado, 2010), and renewable energy firms create profitable and ecologically beneficial electricity (Pacheco, York, & Hargrave, 2014).…”

Section: An Identity-based Approach To Social Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

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An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

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Social enterprise has gained widespread acclaim as a tool for addressing social and environmental problems. Yet because social enterprises integrate social welfare and commercial logics, they face the challenge of pursuing frequently conflicting goals. Studies have begun to address how established social enterprises can manage these tensions, but we know little about how, why, and with what consequences social entrepreneurs mix competing logics as they create new organizations. To address this gap, we develop a theoretical model based in identity theory that helps to explain (1) how commercial and social welfare logics become relevant to entrepreneurship, (2) how different types of entrepreneurs perceive the tension between these logics, and (3) what implications this has for how entrepreneurs recognize and develop social enterprise opportunities. Our approach responds to calls from organizational and entrepreneurship scholars to extend existing frameworks of opportunity recognition and development to better account for social enterprise creation.

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Section: An Identity-based Approach To Social Enterprisementioning

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Section: An Identity-based Approach To Social Enterprisementioning

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An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

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“…Because of this, Hoffman (2012, 2014), Battilana and Dorado (2010), and Batillana and Lee (2014) write about "Hybrid Organizations" as they discuss the nature, perspectives, and impacts generated by different types of initiatives and organizations motivated by social and environmental issues and situated among civil society, the market, and the State. Porter and Kramer (2011) argue that boundaries are blurred between nonprofit and for-profit sectors in the creation and sharing of social values by different types of business organizations.…”

Section: Social Business: Hybridism Rationale and Management Modelmentioning

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The International Growth of a Social Business: A Case Study

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In developing countries, initiatives have often been undertaken in order to fight social and environmental problems. Since the 1990s, an increase can be seen in corporate social responsibility actions, as well as increasingly strong activities by civil society organizations. Tweenty years ago, companies and civil society organizations stood wide apart from each other, with often conflicting agendas and resistance to mutual collaboration. This reality has changed significantly. Besides the phenomenon of cross-sector partnerships, we can also observe the expansion of a particular organization type, i.e., the social business, which combines two objectives that were previously seen as incompatible: financial sustainability and the generation of social value. This article aims to discuss the factors that influence the results of a social business operating in three countries: Botswana, Brazil and Jordan. The results allow understanding the challenges involved in constructing social businesses in developing countries as well as a better understanding of the very nature of those businesses, considering the social realities where they operate.

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“…Hybrids are capable of creating 'shared value' by combining commercial with social goals and by following multiple institutional logics, i.e. commercial and social, simultaneously (Porter and Kramer, 2011;Jay, 2013;Battilana and Lee, 2014;Battilana and Dorado, 2010).…”

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“…Moreover, fieldwork in South Africa has uncovered several diverse types of organizations that can be categorized as social enterprises, challenging the more conventional idea that social enterprises combine social with profitability objectives (Battilana and Lee, 2014). For example, a collective composed of five women who sell snacks and do catering with a profit motive but baulk at earning more than what is needed to meet its members' fluctuating financial needs, challenges categorization.…”

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Africa Business Research as a Laboratory for Theory-Building: Extreme Conditions, New Phenomena, and Alternative Paradigms of Social Relationships

2017

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Abstract:Africa is an increasingly important business context, yet we still know very little about it. We review the challenges and opportunities that firms in Africa face and propose that these can serve as the basis for extending current theories and models of the firm. We do so by challenging some of the implicit assumptions and stereotypes on firms in Africa and proposing three avenues for extending theories. One is taking the extreme conditions of some Africa countries and using them as a laboratory for modifying current theories and models of the firm, as we illustrate in the case of institutional theory and the resource-based view. A second one is identifying new themes that arise from analyzing firms in Africa and their contexts of operation, and we discuss four themes: migrating multinationals and the meaning of home country, diaspora networks within and across countries, a recasting of cultural and institutional distance, and new hybrid organizational forms. A third one is developing new theories based on alternative paradigms of social relationships that have emerged in Africa that differ from those underpinning existing theories of the firm, such as kgotla and its view of community-based relationships or ubuntu and its humanizing view of relationships.

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Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises

Cited by 486 publications

References 168 publications

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

The International Growth of a Social Business: A Case Study

Africa Business Research as a Laboratory for Theory-Building: Extreme Conditions, New Phenomena, and Alternative Paradigms of Social Relationships

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