Organizational hybridity : perspectives, processes, promises

This book contains Open Access chapters. As complex, intractable social problems continue to intensify, organizations respond with novel approaches that bridge multiple institutional spheres and combine forms, identities, and logics that would conventionally not go together, creating hybridity. Scho...

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Other Authors Besharov, Marya (Editor), Mitzinneck, Bjoern (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 69.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839093562
9781839093548
DOI10.1108/s0733-558x202069
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 320 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Chapter 1: Heterogeneity in organizational hybridity: a configurational, situated, and dynamic approach
  • Section A: Multiple theoretical lenses
  • Chapter 2: Hybridity and institutional logics
  • Chapter 3: Taking hybridity for granted: institutionalization and hybrid identification
  • Chapter 4: Reasoning with heuristics: a new approach to categories theory and the evaluation of hybrids
  • Chapter 5: A paradoxical approach to hybridity: integrating dynamic equilibrium and disequilibrium perspectives
  • Section B: Varied empirical contexts
  • Chapter 6: Business sustainability as a context for studying hybridity
  • Chapter 7: How the zebra got its stripes: individual founder imprinting and hybrid social ventures
  • Chapter 8: New hybrid forms and their liability of novelty
  • Chapter 9: Let's talk about problems: advancing research on hybrid organizing, social enterprises, and institutional context
  • Section C: Multilevel and dynamic approaches
  • Chapter 10: Shift in hybridity in response to environmental complexity: the transformation of the Italian Guardia di Finanza
  • Chapter 11: Hybrid agency: sheltered workshops (19412019)
  • Chapter 12: Institutional settlements and organizational hybridity: the rise and fall of supervised consumption sites
  • Chapter 13: Legitimacy trade-offs in hybrid fields: an illustration through microfinance, impact investing and social entrepreneurship
  • Index.