Navigating Plurality in Hybrid Organizing: The Case of Sport for Development and Peace Entrepreneurs

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per G. Svensson ◽  
Chad S. Seifried
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Design ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Interorganizational Relationships ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Organizational Sustainability ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Core Practices ◽  
Hybrid Organizing ◽  
Workforce Composition

Sport leaders are redefining organizational paradigms by blending elements from traditional forms of organizing. Leaders of emergent hybrid forms face unique challenges in managing tensions associated with the paradoxical elements they embody. This paper introduces the concept of hybrid organizing and examines its applicability to Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). Specifically, Battilana and Lee’s (2014) multidimensional framework is used to examine the core practices, workforce composition, organizational design, interorganizational relationships, and organizational culture of hybrid SDP entities. Findings from this exploratory empirical work with nine organizations indicate SDP hybrids operate under a multitude of legal structures yet are underlined by shared beliefs that these new forms provide better opportunities for achieving social impact and organizational sustainability. Organizational leaders appear to use a multitude of internal mechanisms for managing the seemingly paradoxical nature of hybrid organizing. Strengths and challenges associated with these efforts were revealed and are critically examined.

Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organisations

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Mehlika Saraç
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Hybrid Organizing ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Dual Objectives

Social enterprises are organizations that seek to achieve social goals through innovative and social value-creating activities. However, besides their social objectives, they are confronting financial and resource-based challenges in the markets to provide their sustainability. The tension between these dual objectives leads organizations to focus on one of the strategies value-creating or value capture. However, in recent years, hybrid organizing is seen as an alternative way of balancing dual objectives. Thus this study aims to understand how hybrid social enterprises perform well and create social impact. A qualitative descriptive single case study approach will be used to analyze a hybrid organization and its consequences.

Governance in Technology Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Aygen Kurt ◽  
Penny Duquenoy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Ethical Governance

With an increasing focus on the inclusion of considering the ethical and social impact of technology developments resulting from research in the European Union, and elsewhere, comes a need for a more effective process in technology development. Current ethics governance processes do not go far enough in enabling these considerations to be embedded in European Union research projects in a way that engages participants in technology development projects. Such a lack of engagement not only creates a distance between the technology developers and ethics (and ethics experts) but also undermines the legitimacy of decisions on ethical issues and outcomes, which in turn has an impact on the resulting innovation and its role in benefitting individuals and society. This chapter discusses these issues in the context of empirical work, founded on a theoretical base, undertaken as part of the EGAIS (Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies) EU co-funded FP7 project.

Moments of Governance in is Outsourcing: Conceptualizing Effects of Contracts on Value Capture and Creation

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaila M Miranda ◽  
C Bruce Kavan
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Interorganizational Relationships ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Or Efficiency ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Contractual Relationship ◽  
Governance Choices ◽  
Is Outsourcing

Research on the governance of IS outsourcing has recognized two moments of governance: the formal outsourcing contract (promissory contract) and post-contractual relationship management (psychological contract). While this research has been prescriptive of contract terms that lead to successful outsourcing, there is need for clarity on what specific governance options are available at each moment of governance and how governance choices at one moment affect those at another, and consequently affect outsourcing outcomes. This paper draws on theoretical and empirical work in the areas of governance and contracts to develop a model of IS outsourcing governance, delineating specific moments of governance (MoG). It describes how the IS outsourcing context circumscribes market, hierarchy, and network governance options that are available at the promissory contract and psychological contract moments. Processes and structures that constitute governance choices at each moment of governance are identified. This analysis of outcomes recognizes an inherent tension in interorganizational relationships: firms’ desire for value capture or efficiency vs their desire for value creation or innovation. We explore how choices in formulating the promissory contract affect the psychological contract, and how psychological contract choices impact value capture and creation. The paper concludes by exploring the implications of the MoG model for practitioners and suggesting areas in which further conceptualization and empirical work may be beneficial.

scholarly journals The Smell of Others: Olfactory claims and the public sphere

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Shanty Town ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Shared Norms

Smell is typically considered the least of the senses, the lowest in a hierarchy privileging sight since the Enlightenment. The experience of olfaction is highly emotion-laden and tightly bound to memory and personal history, and Western smell vocabularies are notoriously poor: scentful experience seems poorly suited as a basis to enroll others in political projects, especially in contexts that privilege rational public debate. But smells can also spur us to immediate action. When do they prompt us to enroll others in that action, and how do we turn individual sensory experiences into convincing arguments? How does olfaction leave the realm of individual experience and generate consequential social change? This article shows how social processes of olfaction can be used to prompt social action. With an analysis of the complaints that legitimated the 2015 destruction of a shanty town in southern Sweden and a historical inquiry into the shared beliefs that allowed those complaints to make sense, I show how olfactory claims – claims based on personal experiences of smell – can leverage broadly shared norms, values, and meanings to demand social action. Despite the personal, emotional, and fleeting nature of olfactory experience (or perhaps thanks to those features, which disallow independent confirmation) it can easily be weaponized as a political tool. This article asks how individual sensory experience can have social impact, and shows how a fit between local olfactory cosmologies and the particular features of olfactory claims can allow them to be used to demand action.

Regional differences in impact investment: a theory of impact investing ecosystems

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip T. Roundy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
System Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Impact Investing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Hybrid Organizing

Purpose Impact investing, a type of values-based investing that combines financial investment with philanthropic goals, is receiving heightened scholarly and practitioner attention. The geography of impact investing, however, is largely unexamined, and it is not clear why some regional impact-investing communities are more vibrant than other communities. Regional differences in entrepreneurial activities are increasingly explained by differences in the vitality of entrepreneurial ecosystems, the set of interconnected forces that promote and sustain regional entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to leverage insights from entrepreneurial ecosystems studies to understand the dynamics of communities that encourage and support impact investing. Design/methodology/approach To explain inter-regional differences in the prevalence and intensity of impact investing, this conceptual paper draws from research on entrepreneurial ecosystems and impact investment to theorize about the ecosystem attributes and components that drive vibrant impact investing communities. Findings It is theorized that vibrant impact investing ecosystems have three system-level attributes – diversity, cohesion and coordination – that are influenced by the core components of the ecosystems, including the characteristics of investors, the presence of social impact support organizations and cultural values that promote blending logics. Originality/value The theoretical model contributes to research on impact investing and hybrid organizing, produces concrete implications for ecosystem builders and sets an agenda for future research.

Governance in Technology Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 1474-1490
Author(s):  
Aygen Kurt ◽  
Penny Duquenoy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Ethical Governance

With an increasing focus on the inclusion of considering the ethical and social impact of technology developments resulting from research in the European Union, and elsewhere, comes a need for a more effective process in technology development. Current ethics governance processes do not go far enough in enabling these considerations to be embedded in European Union research projects in a way that engages participants in technology development projects. Such a lack of engagement not only creates a distance between the technology developers and ethics (and ethics experts) but also undermines the legitimacy of decisions on ethical issues and outcomes, which in turn has an impact on the resulting innovation and its role in benefitting individuals and society. This chapter discusses these issues in the context of empirical work, founded on a theoretical base, undertaken as part of the EGAIS (Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies) EU co-funded FP7 project.

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