The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations

By Alnoor Ebrahim, Julie Battilana, Johanna Mair. 2014

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Toward a theory of business (2015, background): “22 And still others, social enterprises, commit themselves to social and economic performance but do so absent third party certiﬁcation (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Ebrahim, Battilana, & Mair, 2014).”
Balancing a Hybrid Business Model: The Search for Equilibrium at Cafédirect (2018, background): “All of which could be broadly termed integrated hybrids (Ebrahim et al. 2014), with largely automatic value spillover (Santos et al.”
Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives (2016, background): “267) assert, ‘conflict between social and commercial priorities’ is a central challenge of hybrid organizations; environmental entrepreneurs often face specific challenges (Ebrahim et al., 2014; Pacheco et al., 2010; Russo, 2001), linked to a broader conflict between commercial and ecological logics”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, neutral): “This model is often found in emerging market economies, where companies find innovative ways to minimize the cost of production and delivery to sell affordable goods or services to those in need (Ebrahim et al., 2014).”
A Fair Trade-off? Paradoxes in the Governance of Fair-trade Social Enterprises (2016, background): “The paradox is constituted by barriers to achieving a balance between social and economic benefit, including: under-developed organizational identities, poor stakeholder management, mission drift, corruption, legal form issues, resistance to professionalization, and governance failure (Bull 2008; Di”
Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “Our findings demonstrate that even if organizations that are able to effectively combine their hybrid aims internally (Battilana and Dorado, 2010; Ebrahim et al., 2014; Pache and Santos, 2013), they may still face a challenging external environment.”