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Navigating Institutional Plurality: Organizational Governance in Hybrid Organizations

  • 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.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Johanna MairORCiD, Judith Mayer, Eva Lutz
Parent Title (English):Organization Studies
ISSN:0170-8406
ISSN:1741-3044
Publisher:SAGE Publications
Place of Publisher:Sage UK: London, England
First Page:713
Last Page:739
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615580007
Release Date:2020/02/14
Tag:governance; hybrid organization; institutional logic; institutional plurality; mechanism; social enterprises
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Volume:36
Issue:6
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