Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

作者：Julie Battilana, Silvia Dorado · 发表于：Academy of Management Journal · 年份：2010 · DOI：10.5465/amj.2010.57318391 · 被引用次数：2872 · 研究领域：Microfinance and Financial Inclusion、Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences、Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a “ready-to-wear” model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study of two pioneering commercial microfinance organizations suggest that to be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common organizational identity that strikes a balance between the logics they combine. Our evidence further suggests that the crucial early levers for developing such an organizational identity among organization members are hiring and socialization policies.