Hybrid organisations as trading zones: responses to institutional complexity in the shaping of strategic partnerships

Gottlieb, Stefan Christoffer; Frederiksen, Nicolaj; Koch, Christian; Thuesen, Christian

doi:10.1080/01446193.2020.1738514

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“…The extant research in social entrepreneurship has predominantly focused on two contradictory logics (c.f., Mongelli et al, 2019), usually presented as posing incompatible goals, activities, and norms that are static and continuously shaping competing demands in the same way over time. Yet, emerging research, particularly in cross-sectoral partnership with social enterprises (e.g., Gottlieb et al, 2020;Jay, 2013;Savarese et al, 2020), demonstrates that duality is not the only form of hybrid organizing among social enterprises. Our findings contribute to this stream of research and explicate how the family, market, and ecological logics can interact in fluid and dynamic ways, beyond just permanent contradiction.…”

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“…However, social entrepreneurship research has neglected the potential for more than two logics to be embedded in a social enterprise, despite calls for investigating a broader range of institutional logics beyond the dominant market and social welfare logics (Greenwood et al, 2011;Jaskiewicz et al, 2016). Indeed, emerging research on strategic public-private partnerships as a form of hybrid organizing demonstrates that the market, state, community, and specific professional logics can interact simultaneously (Gottlieb et al, 2020;Jay, 2013), while research with family-owned firms suggests that the family, market, religion, state, and community logics can interact (Fathallah et al, 2020;Greenwood et al, 2010). Yet, such interactions between multiple, not just dual, logics are not empirically investigated in the context of social enterprises and the family logic has been neglected in the social entrepreneurship domain.…”

Section: Heterogeneous Institutional Logics In Social Enterprisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, our findings provide initial insights into the interactions between ecological, market, and family logics in social enterprises in fluid and dynamic ways embedding synergies and contradictions. Thus, we contribute to the emerging stream of research on the plurality of institutional logics (e.g., Gottlieb et al, 2020;Jay, 2013;Savarese et al, 2020), beyond duality, and call for authentic representation of social enterprises that captures the logics present in them, instead of assuming only two conflicting logics. Finally, our findings shed light on the relationships between ethics and institutional logics and provide nuance to our understanding of the ethical challenges for social enterprises and family-owned firms from an ethics of care perspective (Tronto, 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social enterprises combine activities, processes, structures, and meanings associated with multiple institutional logics that may pose conflicting goals, norms, values, and practices. This in-depth multi-source case study of an ecological social enterprise in Malaysia reveals how the enactment of the family logic interacts with the market and ecological logics not only in conflicting but also in synergetic ways. By drawing attention to the institutional logic of the family in social entrepreneurship, this study highlights the heterogeneity of social enterprises. The findings have implications for research with social enterprises and family-owned firms in relation to the ethical obligations of these organizations and the interactions of multiple logics.

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“…In the neighbouring areas of manufacturing and construction, relevant studies have drawn on institutional theory to contribute understandings about large-scale change agenda (e.g., Vermeulen et al, 2007;Reischauer, 2018), with emphasis on institutional pressures for change and their sources (e.g., Jacobsson et al, 2017;Bag et al, 2021), how transformation is triggered (e.g., Hetemi et al, 2020), and how firms respond to complexity and pressures impinged (e.g., Gottlieb et al, 2020). Bag et al (2021), Reischauer (2018), Vermeulen et al (2007) and Jacobsson et al (2017) in their study of manufacturing and construction industries, underscore how technology-focused government policies can critically shape institutional configurations and how actors (firms) operate.…”

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Transforming the construction sector: an institutional complexity perspective

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Burgess

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Purpose Government initiatives to improve construction have increasingly become more focused on introducing a repertoire of technologies to transform the sector. In the literature on construction industry transformation through policy-backed initiatives, how firms will respond to the demands to adopt and use innovative technologies and approaches is taken for granted, and there is scarcely any attention given to the institutional implications of transformation agenda. The purpose of this paper is to discuss these gaps and offer directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach Following a synthesis of literature on the UK’s industry transformation agenda, the authors use the concepts of institutional logics, arrangements, complexity and strategic responses to suggest seven research questions that are at the nexus of policy-backed transformation and institutional theory. Findings In this paper, the authors argue that increasing demands for the adoption and use of digital technologies, platforms, manufacturing approaches and other “industry-4.0”-related technologies will reconfigure existing logics and arrangements in the construction industry, creating a problem of institutional complexity for general contracting firms in particular. Originality/value The questions are relevant for our understanding of the nature of institutional complexities, change, strategic firm responses, field-level dynamics and implications for the construction industry in relation to the transformation agenda. This paper is positioned to spur future research towards exploring the consequences of industry transformation through the lens of institutional theory.

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“…Negócios de impacto social são, portanto, uma resposta organizacional às demandas institucionais concorrentes e um resultado da colaboração intersetorial, na qual estados, mercados e/ou atores sociais combinam recursos e lógicas de cada um de seus campos para concluir uma tarefa. Em ambos os casos, o hibridismo resulta da pressão externa ou de uma agência estratégica intencional, orientada para encontrar respostas para lidar com preocupações potencialmente incompatíveis ou mesmo paradoxais (Gottlieb, Frederiksen, Koch & Thuesen, 2020;Wells & Anasti, 2019).…”

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Fatores Limitadores E Contributivos De Negócios Tecnológicos De Impacto Social Inseridos No Ecossistema De Inovação Da Paraíba

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Este trabalho tem o objetivo analisar quais são os fatores contributivos e limitadores para os negócios tecnológicos de impacto social presentes no ecossistema de inovação da Paraíba, de acordo com o modelo de Jappe (2013). Em termos metodológicos, é empregada uma abordagem qualitativa do tipo descritiva, e foi realizado um estudo multicasos de empresas vinculados à Incubadora de Negócios Criativos e Inovadores de Campina Grande (ITCG). A coleta de dados se deu por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas com os gestores das organizações, além do exame de documentos internos e observação participante. A análise, por sua vez, foi baseada na triangulação dos dados obtidos, tendo como principal fonte de informação as entrevistas realizadas. Os dados obtidos foram expostos baseados em cinco dimensões compostas por 8 aspectos contributivos e 18 limitadores, de acordo com o modelo de Jappe (2013). Os resultados apontam que na dimensão valor social os empreendedores apresentam a intencionalidade de gerar impacto social; bem como utilizam mecanismos de mercado na busca da sustentabilidade financeira. Na dimensão de governança corporativa e processo de tomada de decisão, percebeuse que as estruturas internas precisam estar alinhadas à proposta de desenvolvimento da empresa, embora não efetivamente aplicadas. Os empreendimentos recebem suporte jurídico da ITCG em relação as questões de negócio. O estudo permitiu identificar que as tensões nos negócios sociais investigados são inerentes ao perfil em que elas atuam. Assim, equilibrar o lucro com objetivos sociais e ambientais gera o desafio mais evidente nos negócios sociais.

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Hybrid organisations as trading zones: responses to institutional complexity in the shaping of strategic partnerships

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Bringing the Family Logic in: From Duality to Plurality in Social Enterprises

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