TY - JOUR A1 - Reischauer, Georg A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Platform Organizing in the New Digital Economy: Revisiting Online Communities and Strategic Responses JF - Research in the Sociology of Organizations N2 - We are currently witnessing a new wave of the digital economy. A prime example is the sharing economy where an organization operates a platform for its online community, the sum of individuals who interact to exchange goods and services. The sharing economy blurs several boundaries of economic life – a fact that extant theory on platform organizing has yet paid little attention. We argue to consider two aspects of the sharing economy and revisit related theory to address this lacuna. First, we revive the concept of hybrid community to denote a variant of an online community that mirrors the boundary-blurring nature of the sharing economy. In a hybrid community, individuals interact both online and offline (instead of only online) and consume as well as produce. Second, we revisit the range of strategic responses suggested by extant literature to minimize the dependence of a platform organization on its hybrid community and show that the sharing economy requires management research to adapt and potentially recast existing claims. Y1 - 2018 VL - 57 SP - 113 EP - 135 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Radeke, Joanna A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Lenssen, Gilbert G. ED - Smith, N. Craig T1 - Waste Concern: Fixing Market Failures BT - An Executive Education Case and Textbook T2 - Managing Sustainable Business Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-94-024-1142-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1144-7 SP - 557 EP - 574 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hehenberger, Lisa A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seganti, Sara ED - Alemany, Luisa ED - Andreoli, Job J. T1 - Impact Investing: Financing Social Entrepreneurs T2 - Entrepreneurial Finance. The Art and Science of Growing Ventures Y1 - 2018 SN - 9781108368070 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108368070 SP - 485 EP - 527 PB - Cambridge University Press ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nusser, Harald A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Fürst, Michael T1 - Opinion: The coming evaluation revolution in corporate responsibility JF - Devex Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-the-coming-evaluation-revolution-in-corporate-responsibility-93479 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Mastering System Change JF - Stanford Social Innovation Review Y1 - 2018 UR - https://ssir.org/articles/entry/mastering_system_change IS - Fall 2018 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Kimsey, Marissa A1 - Zogbi, Priscilla A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Associação Saúde Criança: Trying to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale N2 - Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Associação Saúde Criança in 1991 to try to help poor families break the cycle of poverty and illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on the pillars of health, housing, citizenship, income, and education. After introducing the seeds of this approach, the case examines the evolution of the organization’s attempts to grow its social impact in Brazil and beyond—including a loose network of sister organizations, social franchising, licensing agreements, and government adoption. Y1 - 2018 PB - Harvard Business School Case Study ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Rathert, Nikolas T1 - Alternative organizing with social purpose: revisiting institutional analysis of market-based activity JF - Socio-Economic Review N2 - Given rampant economic inequality, social exclusion and overconsumption, organizing in markets increasingly focuses on leveraging commercial activity for a social purpose. Alternative forms of organizing have developed to overcome the deficiencies of contemporary capitalism. They have become prevalent in numerous institutional contexts through types of organizations such as social enterprises, cooperatives and platform-based sharing economy organizations. Our objective is to ignite research on alternative organizing. We build on two important institutional perspectives, Neo-institutionalism and Comparative Capitalism, to investigate how these organizations diverge from the archetypal corporation. In addition, we develop a framework to guide institutional analysis of the origins, enabling conditions and consequences of alternative organizing in contemporary markets and society. We conclude by laying out pathways for future research. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz031 SN - 1475-147X VL - 19 IS - 2 SP - 817 EP - 836 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Miriam A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Purpose, Commitment and Coordination Around Small Wins: A Proactive Approach to Governance in Integrated Hybrid Organizations JF - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations N2 - Integrated hybrid organizations, for instance social enterprises that pursue both social and economic goals through a single activity, are seen by many as promising vehicles to create social value while remaining economically sustainable. At the same time, they are said to run the risk of mission drift—losing sight of their social mission while navigating market and political pressures. While organizational governance mechanisms that ensure the overall direction, control and accountability of the organization are considered key to avoiding mission drift, scholars have argued that traditional governance mechanisms may not work in the context of social enterprises. Drawing on the legacy of old institutional theory, this article proposes a proactive approach to governance in social enterprises. We complement and go beyond control and compliance approaches and introduce a governance approach focused on purpose, commitment and coordinating around small wins. We propose that these three interlocking governance mechanisms allow social enterprises to mitigate the risk of mission drift in a proactive rather than reactive manner. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-019-00116-5 VL - 30 IS - 3 SP - 535 EP - 548 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Butler, Brittany A1 - Kimsey, Marissa A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Marquis, Christopher A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - George, Gerard ED - Baker, Ted ED - Tracey, Paul ED - Joshi, Havovi T1 - Problem, person, and pathway: A framework for social innovators BT - The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation T2 - Handbook of Inclusive Innovation Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781786436009 SN - 9781786436016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786436016 SP - 61 EP - 74 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Romme, Georges A1 - Ansell, Chris A1 - Buck, John A1 - Choi, Younghoon A1 - van der Eyden, Rob A1 - Figueroa Huencho, Verónica A1 - John, Edwin A1 - Kunkler, Tracy A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Meijer, Albert A1 - Meyer, Renate A1 - Stephenson, Karen A1 - Välikangas,, Liisa A1 - Whitestone, Nathaniel A1 - Yu, Cordelia T1 - United People: Designing a New Model of Global Governance JF - Journal of Asian Scientific Research Y1 - 2018 UR - http://www.aessweb.com/pdf-files/JASR-2018-8(4)-152-170.pdf U6 - https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.2.2018.84.152.170 SN - 2223-1331 VL - 8 IS - 4 SP - 152 EP - 170 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zilber, Tammar B. A1 - Amis, John M. A1 - Mair, Johanna ED - Zilber, Tammar B. ED - Amis, John M. ED - Mair, Johanna T1 - Dismantling the Master’s House Using the Master’s Tools: On the Sociology of Organizational Knowledge BT - The Production of Managerial Knowledge and Organizational Theory: New Approaches to Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory T2 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Volume 59) Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-78769-184-1 VL - 59 SP - 19 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Reischauer, Georg T1 - Plurality and Effects of the Sharing Economy BT - 2nd Volume: A World of New Practices T2 - Atlas of Social Innovation Y1 - 2019 SN - 9783962381578 SP - 30 EP - 33 PB - oekoem verlag CY - Munich ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hehenberger, Lisa A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Metz, Ashley T1 - The Assembly of a Field Ideology: An Idea-Centric Perspective on Systemic Power in Impact Investing JF - Academy of Management Journal N2 - We advance a novel idea-centric perspective to study power-laden aspects of institutional life in fields. Our study includes data from the field of impact investing in Europe from 2006–2018, collected from the inside and analyzed collaboratively by inside and outside researchers. We develop an analytical tool based on dichotomies to detect latent forms of conflict that easily remain unnoticed and to see how some ideas become dominant while others are abandoned or sidelined. We display the assembly of a field ideology—a coherent system of ideas that shapes thinking, reasoning and acting in a field. Furthermore, we specify suppression as a mechanism that gives rise to and perpetuates systemic power in fields, restricting options and shaping what is valued. Our study provides insights into the dynamic nature of institutional life in fields, including alternative paths not taken and possible futures. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.1402 VL - 62 IS - 6 SP - 1672 EP - 1704 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Uzo, Uchenna A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Adewusi, Adedeji T1 - Relational activities and channel contracts: Insights from channel intermediaries in Nigeria JF - Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation N2 - This article explains how relational activities affect the design of seemingly paradoxical contractual arrangements among groups of channel intermediaries in Nigeria. The study used a grounded theory approach to investigate and analyze the contractual processes of three groups of channel intermediaries representing three diverse industries. Findings reveal that social relational activities trigger a higher prevalence of word-of-mouth agreements among channel intermediaries, whereas a blend of commercial and social relational activities trigger a higher prevalence of written agreements. Furthermore, we find that negotiation domains moderate the relationship between relational activities and the design of contractual arrangements. Insights from our work offer contributions to the literature on paradoxes, relational embeddedness, and international business. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/2055563619867341 VL - 4 IS - 1-2 SP - 75 EP - 97 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna ED - Powell, Walter W. ED - Bromley, Patricia T1 - Social Entrepreneurship: Research as Disciplined Exploration T2 - The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook N2 - Social enterprises address social problem by means of markets. Over the last two decades they have become increasingly popular across geographies. During this time open contestation and ideological debates over the promise, intention and meaning of social entrepreneurship have dominated public discourse but also inhibited the development of a solid knowledge base on social enterprises as a form of organizing in the spectrum of private action for public purpose. The dominant way of seeing social enterprises as pursuing dual – commercial and social – goals and as ideal sites to study the battle of logics confines our way of looking and limit the theorizing potential around social enterprise. In this chapter I advocate for disciplined exploration approach to study social enterprises to expose this potential. I draw from a collaborative research project involving 1,045 social enterprises across nine countries and show patterns and common features of social enterprises regarding their choice of legal form, their participation in the market for public purpose, their social footprint, and their role in changing local institutional arrangements. I argue that embracing rather than taming the diversity of social enterprises opens opportunities for developing new but more importantly for recasting, refining and connecting existing theories. Y1 - 2020 SN - 9781503608047 PB - Stanford University Press CY - Stanford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna ED - Laasch, Oliver ED - Jamali, Dima ED - Freeman, R. E. ED - Suddaby, Roy T1 - Social Innovation: Specifying Pathways for Impact T2 - Research Handbook of Responsible Management N2 - Outlining both historical foundations and the latest research trends, this Research Handbook offers a unique and cutting-edge overview of the numerous avenues to responsible management. Opening with a conceptual mapping of the field, thought leaders such as Henry Mintzberg and Archie Carroll present foundational and controversial views. Frameworks such as sustainability management, responsible leadership, humanistic and biomimetic management are introduced. Glocal approaches include responsible management with Chinese characteristics, West African Yoruba, and American Pragmatism. Exploring frameworks for the responsible management process, such as theories of practice, and for responsible management learning and innovation, readers are introduced to key methods responsible management research, such as participatory action research. Groundbreaking in scope and depth, this Handbook caters to the responsible management research community, particularly to the Academy of Management and to United Nations PRME signatory business schools. Policymakers and practitioners will benefit from its insight into the latest advances in responsible management research. Y1 - 2020 SN - 9781788971959 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham,UK ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Maurer, Indre A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Oberg, Achim T1 - Variety and Trajectories of New Forms of Organizing in the Sharing Economy: A Research Agenda T2 - Theorizing the Sharing Economy: Varieties and Trajectories of New Forms of Organizing, Research in the Sociology of Organizations N2 - The sharing economy is one of the most influential developments of the last decade. The emergence of new forms of organizing it brings with it has affected modern (business) life at multiple levels: Sharing organizations have blurred the distinction between the individual roles of provider, user, and employee; they have introduced organizational practices of coordinating members and communities; and they have sparked societal, political, and economic debates in multiple fields. These dynamics at the individual, organizational, and field level provide an opportunity for organization scholars to take stock of and theorize the sharing economy. This volume takes advantage of this opportunity by presenting a collection of empirical and conceptual work that explores the variety and the trajectories of new forms of organizing in the sharing economy, and in doing so builds on, rejuvenates, and refines existing organization theories. Together, the chapters included in this volume offer a comprehensive overview of theoretically grounded research that deepens our understanding of new forms of organizing and indicates future avenues for research. Y1 - 2020 SN - 9781787561809 SP - 1 EP - 23 PB - Emerald Publishing Limited CY - Bingley, UK ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Rathert, Nikolas T1 - Social Entrepreneurship: Prospects for the Study of Market Based Activity and Social Change T2 - The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives N2 - Corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to grow as an area of interest in academia and business. Encompassing broad topics such as the relationship between business, society, and government, environmental issues, globalization, and the social and ethical dimensions of management and corporate operation, CSR has become an increasingly interdisciplinary subject relevant to areas of economics, sociology, and psychology, among others. New directions in CSR research include advanced 'micro' based investigations in organizational behaviour and human resource management, additional studies of environmental social responsibility and sustainability, further research on 'strategic' CSR, connections between social responsibility and entrepreneurship, and improvements in methods and data analysis as the field matures. Through authoritative contributions from international scholars across the social sciences, this Handbook provides a cohesive overview of this recent expansion. It introduces new perspectives, new methodologies, and new evidence from a range of disciplines to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary research and global implementation of corporate social responsibility. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9780198802280 SP - 359 EP - 373 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - EDBOOK A1 - Maurer, Indre A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Oberg, Achim T1 - Theorizing the Sharing Economy: Varieties and Trajectories of New Forms of Organizing. N2 - The sharing economy is one of the most influential developments of the last decade. The emergence of new forms of organizing it brings with it has affected modern (business) life at multiple levels: Sharing organizations have blurred the distinction between the individual roles of provider, user, and employee; they have introduced organizational practices of coordinating members and communities; and they have sparked societal, political, and economic debates in multiple fields. These dynamics at the individual, organizational, and field level provide an opportunity for organization scholars to take stock of and theorize the sharing economy. This volume takes advantage of this opportunity by presenting a collection of empirical and conceptual work that explores the variety and the trajectories of new forms of organizing in the sharing economy, and in doing so builds on, rejuvenates, and refines existing organization theories. Together, the chapters included in this volume offer a comprehensive overview of theoretically grounded research that deepens our understanding of new forms of organizing and indicates future avenues for research. Y1 - 2020 SN - 9781787561809 PB - Emerald Publishing Limited CY - Bingley, UK ER - TY - EDBOOK A1 - Zilber, Tammar B. A1 - Amis, John M. A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - The Production of Managerial Knowledge and Organizational Theory: New Approaches to Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory N2 - As organizational scholars, we are accustomed to using theoretical lenses to understand organizational practices and outcomes. That is, we conceptualize what people do, feel and think in their everyday organizational interactions through the use of theoretical language and models to uncover individual and/or social antecedents and outcomes. We tend to ignore, however, how our own day-to-day work as scholars - doing research - is subjected to the same pressures, affected by similar factors, and should be accounted for through similar modes of analyses. We treat our studies and theories as solid anchor points and as objective truths rather than as constructions embedded within individual, organizational, field and societal contexts. This volume is a must read for all researchers interested in understanding our own craft. Building on established traditions in the sociology of knowledge, we direct a reflective and critical gaze towards the structures, practices and meaning systems that ground and shape how we produce and consume managerial knowledge and organization theory. The volume includes both empirically-based papers and reflective essays that explore theoretical concepts and analytical reasoning to explain, critique and advance the ways in which we write about, produce, and consume theory. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781787691841 PB - Emerald Publishing Limited CY - Bingley, UK ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Amis, John M. A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Munir, Kamal A. T1 - The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality JF - Academy of Management Annals N2 - With societal inequalities continuing to increase and organizations providing the vast majority of people with their income, we wanted to assess the ways in which organizational practices are implicated in the burgeoning of social and economic inequality. Following an integrative review of the literature drawn from across the social sciences, we found that the multiple ways in which five major organizational practices – hiring, role allocation, promotion, compensation and structuring – are enacted emerged as being central to the reproduction of inequality. We also uncovered how the persistence of these practices, and the inequality they induce, can be largely attributed to a constellation of three highly institutionalized myths, efficiency, meritocracy and positive globalization. Our analysis further reveals how, as scholars, we bear a corresponding responsibility to reconsider how we engage in research on and teaching about organizations. The implications of this for our future work are discussed. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2017.0033 VL - 14 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Scaling innovative ideas to create inclusive labour markets JF - Nature Human Behaviour Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0352-1 SN - ISSN 2397-3374 (online) VL - 2 SP - 884 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Mayer, Judith A1 - Lutz, Eva T1 - Navigating Institutional Plurality: Organizational Governance in Hybrid Organizations JF - Organization Studies N2 - Hybrid organizations operate in a context of institutional plurality and enact elements of multiple, often conflicting institutional logics. Governance is highly relevant in navigating such an environment. This study examines how hybrid organizations set up their governance structures and practices. Building on survey data from 70 social enterprises, a subset of hybrid organizations, we identify two types of hybrid organization: conforming hybrids rely on the prioritization of a single institutional logic and dissenting hybrids use defiance, selective coupling and innovation as mechanisms to combine and balance the prescriptions of several institutional logics. We illustrate these mechanisms by drawing on the qualitative analysis of selected cases. This study refines current debates on social enterprises as hybrid organizations. Based on our findings, we speculate that some social enterprises might assume hybridity for symbolic reasons while others – genuine hybrids – do so for substantive reasons. KW - - KW - governance KW - hybrid organization KW - institutional logic KW - institutional plurality KW - mechanism KW - social enterprises Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615580007 SN - 0170-8406 SN - 1741-3044 VL - 36 IS - 6 SP - 713 EP - 739 PB - SAGE Publications CY - Sage UK: London, England ER -