Download or read book Hybrid Organizing Under Institutional Complexity written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybrid organizations are exposed to different, sometimes competing institutional logics prescribing legitimate behavior. In cases of competing logics, complying with the prescriptions of one logic may violate the other. These contexts of institutional complexity are increasingly prevalent in our modern economy. For example, business leaders not only need to demonstrate commercial success but also comply with highly institutionalized social and environmental claims. Organizations thus need to cope with diverging institutional logics from different institutionalized fields such as commerce, social welfare, public administration and development cooperation. Many hybrid organizations struggle to gain legitimacy or prevent internal conflict, while others benefit from institutional complexity generating innovation and accessing resources from multiple constituencies. This dissertation aims to better understand how hybrids are organized, i.e. how do hybrid organizations structure themselves, how do they make strategy, and how do they access resources. Impact investing and social entrepreneurship are areas of institutional complexity. Their organizations and individuals are exposed to financial or commercial logics as well as philanthropic or welfare logics. Social entrepreneurs prioritize value creation for society over value appropriation for their organizations. In a similar vein impact investors seek generating financial returns while intentionally creating positive value for society. Impact investing and social entrepreneurship serve as appropriate contexts for the study of hybrid organizing and they entail organizing challenges that can be addressed with institutional theory. In my dissertation, I report from four studies that shed light on hybrid organizing in impact investing and social enterprises. For each context, my research colleagues and I conducted an exploratory case study (paper I and III) as well as a conceptual.