Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises

Battilana, Julie; Sengul, Metin; Pache, Anne-Claire; Model, Jacob

doi:10.5465/amj.2013.0903

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“…What appears crucial, however, is (a) to shed light on the factors that foster the coexistence of and the exchange on pluralistic views on sustainability within organizations without any a priori emphasis of any particular interpretation or cognitive frame, and (b) to address those factors that enhance the translation of such a pluralistic cognition into new possibilities of how firms can respond to sustainability challenges. With regard to the former, aspects such as the empowerment of organizational members (Haugh & Talwar, 2014;Seibert, Silver, & Randolph, 2004), bottom-up sensegiving (Maitlis, 2005;Maitlis & Lawrence, 2007), and the creation of spaces of negotiation (Battilana, Sengul, Pache, & Model, 2014) on divergent views on corporate sustainability appear particularly relevant. Future research could thus address the organizational conditions that enhance and encourage organizational members to develop and defend their own views on corporate sustainability in their organizational setting.…”

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Toward Cognitive Plurality on Corporate Sustainability in Organizations

Hahn

Aragón‐Correa

2015

Organization & Environment

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Toward Cognitive Plurality on Corporate Sustainability in Organizations

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Aragón‐Correa

2015

Organization & Environment

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“…As it is the case in Europe in general, Flemish social enterprises mainly emerged because of the persistence of structural unemployment and the need for more active policies to tackle the increasing exclusion of specific groups. These "work integration social enterprises" offer a job to disadvantaged people, but in addition they focus actively on job training, necessary to make reintegration in the labor market possible, and provide social support to solve personal problems which are often obstacles for employment [11,12,34]. While some of these organizations are specifically set up to hire disadvantaged people, others are organizations or local authorities who hire some disadvantaged workers, next to a majority of regular employees [34].…”

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“…Social enterprises are described as typical hybrid organizations [11][12][13] and face some specific internal and external tensions and challenges [10]. This challenging environment has made the assessment and the reporting of the organizational performance within social enterprises of particular importance.…”

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The Development of a Measurement Instrument for the Organizational Performance of Social Enterprises

Crucke

Decramer

2016

Sustainability

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There is a growing consensus that the adoption of performance measurement tools are of particular interest for social enterprises in order to support internal decision-making and to answer the demands of accountability toward their stakeholders. As a result, different methodologies to assess the non-financial performance of social enterprises are developed by academics and practitioners. Many of these methodologies are on the one hand discussions of general guidelines or, on the other hand, very case specific. As such, these methodologies do not offer a functional tool for a broad range of social enterprises. The goal of this article is to fill this gap by developing an instrument suitable for the internal assessment and the external reporting of the non-financial performance of a diverse group of social enterprises. To reach this goal, we used qualitative (focus groups and a Delphi panel) and quantitative research methods (exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis), involving multiple actors in the field of social entrepreneurship. Focusing on five dimensions of organizational performance (economic, environmental, community, human and governance performance), we offer a set of indicators and an assessment tool for social enterprises.

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“…While studies have argued that internal strife between stakeholders aligned with conflicting logics can be generative (Ashforth & Reingen, 2014;Battilana et al, 2015) or destructive (Besharov & Smith, 2014), the role of founder identity in resolving such conflict has been relatively unexamined. Our model suggests that future research on how organizations deal with institutional complexity (Greenwood et al, 2011;Wry, Cobb, & Aldrich, 2013) may be informed by incorporating an understanding of the entrepreneur's salient identities and how this affects their approach to integrating conflicting aims.…”

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An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

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York

2017

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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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Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises

Cited by 609 publications

References 72 publications

Toward Cognitive Plurality on Corporate Sustainability in Organizations

Toward Cognitive Plurality on Corporate Sustainability in Organizations

The Development of a Measurement Instrument for the Organizational Performance of Social Enterprises

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

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