We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as …
Organizations increasingly grapple with hybridity—the combination of identities, forms, logics, or other core elements that would conventionally not go together. Drawing on in …
J Schad, MW Lewis, S Raisch… - Academy of management …, 2016 - journals.aom.org
Paradox studies offer vital and timely insights into an array of organizational tensions. Yet this field stands at a critical juncture. Over the past 25 years, management scholars have …
This article presents a constitutive approach to the study of organizational contradictions, dialectics, paradoxes, and tensions. In particular, it highlights five constitutive dimensions …
Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the …
J Battilana, M Lee - Academy of Management Annals, 2014 - journals.aom.org
Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially legitimate templates for organizing, and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In …
ML Besharov, WK Smith - Academy of management review, 2014 - journals.aom.org
Multiple institutional logics present a theoretical puzzle. While scholars recognize their increasing prevalence within organizations, research offers conflicting perspectives on their …
C Skelcher, SR Smith - Public administration, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a novel approach to theorizing hybridity in public and nonprofit organizations. The concept of hybridity is widely used to describe organizational responses to changes in …
Stigma has become an increasingly significant challenge for society. Recognition of this problem is indicated by the growing attention paid to it within the management literature …