Organizations increasingly grapple with hybridity—the combination of identities, forms,
logics, or other core elements that would conventionally not go together. Drawing on in …

Based on a 24-month ethnographic case study of the opening of the first Islamic bank in
Germany, we make three contributions to the institutional theory literature. First, we outline …

Hybrid organizations must sustainably attend to multiple goals embedded in different
institutional spheres. Past research has highlighted the value for hybrids in recruiting board …

Research on hybrid organizations and institutional complexity commonly depicts the
presence of multiple logics within organizations as an exceptional situation. In this article …

Hybrid organizations harbor different and often conflicting institutional logics, thus facing the
challenge of sustaining their hybridity. Crucial to overcoming this challenge is the …

This paper explores organizational responses to conflicting institutional demands. An
inductive comparative case study of four social enterprises that scaled their organization …

As new roles emerge in organizations, it becomes critical to understand how organizational
structure can impede or enable the managerial discretion available to role incumbents. We …

Hybrid organizations present a puzzle for institutional theory. Because they combine distinct
institutional logics (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Pache & Santos, 2013b), identities (Albert & …

Hybrid organizations operate in a context of institutional plurality and enact elements of
multiple, often conflicting institutional logics. Governance is highly relevant in navigating …

Prior studies have emphasized that structural attributes are crucial to simultaneously
pursuing exploration and exploitation, yet our understanding of antecedents of ambidexterity …