Hybridization generally refers to the process and hybridity to the product of a mixture of essentially contradictory and conflicting elements. We refer to it here as a combination of the characteristics of civil society, market, and state and mainly focus on hybrid organizations, as these have raised the most pressing questions in research on civil society. These hybrid organizations operate at the borders between the spheres of the market, state, and civil society and combine the characteristics and logics conventionally attached to each of them (