Hybrid Organizations: No Cause for Concern?

By Taco Brandsen, P. Karré. 2011

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Hybrid organizations mix the characteristics of state, market, and civil society. Critics have suggested that such organizations pose severe risks to the public sector, both financially and culturally. However, these assertions are based mostly on theoretical claims or single case studies. No systematic evidence has been collected to support them. The findings of a large research program in The Netherlands in several policy fields show that the concerns over hybrid organizations appear to be overstated, since theoretically defined risks have not materialized. Conditions such as the presence of active regulators and a high degree of professionalism appear to dampen the risks.

Subfields: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda (2020, background): “Management literature uses the term “SE” for the offspring of two different species that span their institutional boundaries and operate in several functional domains (Brandsen & Karré, 2011; Pache & Santos, 2010).”
• Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “characteristics of market and non-market elements (Battilana and Dorado, 2010; Brandsen and Karre, 2011; Powell, 1987).”
• Achieving Shared Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Value Creation: Toward a Social Resource-Based View (SRBV) of the Firm (2018, background): “Hybrid organizations can suffer disadvantages in terms of loss of legitimacy (Brandsen and Karré 2011; Minkoff 2002), reducing access to resources (D'Aunno et al. 1991) and increasing organizational mortality (Barron et al. 1994).”
• Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2014, background): “…two different species (OED 2010) and, in the organization and management literature, the term has been employed to describe organizations that span institutional boundaries (Brandsen and Karré 2011; Jay 2013; Pache and Santos 2012; Smith 2010) and operate in multiple functional domains (Ruef 2000).”