@incollection{MairRathert, author = {Mair, Johanna and Rathert, Nikolas}, title = {Let's Talk about Problems: Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing, Social Enterprises, and Institutional Context}, series = {Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 69)}, booktitle = {Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 69)}, editor = {Besharov, Marya and Mitzinneck, Bjoern}, publisher = {Emerald Publishing Limited}, doi = {10.1108/S0733-558X20200000069009}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {189 -- 208}, abstract = {Social enterprises have long been considered ideal settings for studying hybrid organizing due to their combination of social and economic goals and activities. In this chapter, the authors argue that the current research focus on hybrid organizing foregrounds the paradox, conflicting logics, and multiple identities associated with the pursuit of multiple goals but underappreciates the relationship between hybrid organizing and its institutional context. Recognizing that the primary objective of social enterprises is to tackle social problems, the authors introduce the social problem domain as an analytically useful and theoretically interesting meso-level to examine the role of context for hybrid organizing and to advance conversations on hybridity in organizational theory. Social problem domains offer insights into the political, cultural, and material differences in how various societies deal with social problems, which in turn affects hybrid organizing. The authors provide empirical insights derived from an analysis of social enterprises across three countries and social problem domains. The authors show how the institutional arrangements of social enterprises differ considerably across contexts, and how these arrangements affect how social enterprises become more or less similar compared to traditional ways of organizing in these problem domains. Based on these findings, the authors outline a research agenda on social enterprises that focuses on examining the nature, antecedents, and outcomes of hybrid organizing around social problems across multiple levels of analysis. With this chapter, the authors move the focus of social enterprise research in organizational theory from studying how these organizations cope with multiple logics and goals toward studying how they engage in markets for public purpose.}, language = {en} } @incollection{MairRathert, author = {Mair, Johanna and Rathert, Nikolas}, title = {Sozialunternehmertum}, series = {Handbuch Innovationsforschung}, booktitle = {Handbuch Innovationsforschung}, editor = {Bl{\"a}ttel-Mink, Birgit and Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo and Windeler, Arnold}, publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {Printed: 978-3-658-17668-6 / eBook: 978-3-658-17668-6}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {1 -- 16}, abstract = {Sozialunternehmertum bezieht sich auf die innovative Nutzung wie Kombination von Ressourcen zur Bew{\"a}ltigung sozialer Probleme und Bed{\"u}rfnisse. Wir zeichnen Debatten um die Definition von Sozialunternehmertum nach und stellen institutionellen Wandel und die Verfolgung vielf{\"a}ltiger Ziele als Schl{\"u}sselmerkmale von Sozialunternehmertum heraus. Auf Basis einer Diskussion verschiedener Arbeiten der Management-, Organisations- und Unternehmertumsforschung er{\"o}ffnen wir eine pr{\"a}gnante und generative Perspektive auf Sozialunternehmertum. Sie soll helfen, die Erforschung sozialer Innovationen voran zu treiben.}, language = {de} }