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How Hybrid Organizations Respond to Institutional Complexity: The Case of Norway
In past decades, hybrid organizations and institutional complexity have received growing attention, yet questions remain about how hybrids manage institutional complexity in the Nordic welfare states. This article investigates how Norwegian social enterprises (SEs), a subset of hybrid organizations,...
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description | In past decades, hybrid organizations and institutional complexity have received growing attention, yet questions remain about how hybrids manage institutional complexity in the Nordic welfare states. This article investigates how Norwegian social enterprises (SEs), a subset of hybrid organizations, internally manage contradictory demands when externally engaging with multiple logics. The data consists of interviews of leaders and staff members from five SEs, and the findings show that most institutional referents hold a public-sector logic which may crowd out the hybrid nature of SEs. Depending on the conflicting demands, SEs mix decoupling and selective coupling when responding to them. Some were also found to rely on the structural responses of organizational compartmentalization. Compared to the blended hybrids, the structural hybrids experience less internal tension when managing institutional complexity since logic compartmentalization allows the organizations to attend both to their in-use logic and at-play demands. The data yield compelling insights into how the Nordic welfare state may incite a specific configuration of SE where logic compartmentalization appears as a pragmatic choice. |
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spelling | pubmed-93428332022-08-02 How Hybrid Organizations Respond to Institutional Complexity: The Case of Norway Sætre, Hilde Svrljuga Voluntas Research Papers In past decades, hybrid organizations and institutional complexity have received growing attention, yet questions remain about how hybrids manage institutional complexity in the Nordic welfare states. This article investigates how Norwegian social enterprises (SEs), a subset of hybrid organizations, internally manage contradictory demands when externally engaging with multiple logics. The data consists of interviews of leaders and staff members from five SEs, and the findings show that most institutional referents hold a public-sector logic which may crowd out the hybrid nature of SEs. Depending on the conflicting demands, SEs mix decoupling and selective coupling when responding to them. Some were also found to rely on the structural responses of organizational compartmentalization. Compared to the blended hybrids, the structural hybrids experience less internal tension when managing institutional complexity since logic compartmentalization allows the organizations to attend both to their in-use logic and at-play demands. The data yield compelling insights into how the Nordic welfare state may incite a specific configuration of SE where logic compartmentalization appears as a pragmatic choice. Springer US 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9342833/ /pubmed/35936816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-022-00514-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
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title | How Hybrid Organizations Respond to Institutional Complexity: The Case of Norway |
title_full | How Hybrid Organizations Respond to Institutional Complexity: The Case of Norway |
title_fullStr | How Hybrid Organizations Respond to Institutional Complexity: The Case of Norway |
title_full_unstemmed | How Hybrid Organizations Respond to Institutional Complexity: The Case of Norway |
title_short | How Hybrid Organizations Respond to Institutional Complexity: The Case of Norway |
title_sort | how hybrid organizations respond to institutional complexity: the case of norway |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9342833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-022-00514-2 |
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