IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/jsocen/v15y2024i3p1058-1087.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Performance of Hybrid Organisations. Challenges and Opportunities for Social and Commercial Enterprises

Author

Listed:
  • Natalia Garrido-Skurkowicz
  • Rafael Wittek
  • Chaïm la Roi

Abstract

Growth is a key dimension of organisational performance, and innovativeness has been identified as one of its most important predictors in commercial enterprises. But does this also hold for the growing number of social enterprises and so-called “hybrid” organisations? Whereas neo-institutional accounts emphasise the legitimacy premium and performance benefits that come with hybridity, category signaling approaches stress the downsides and negative performance effects of blurred categories. Introducing the neglected distinction between category hybridity and goal hybridity and adopting a multilevel perspective on hybrid organisations, the present study develops and empirically tests competing hypotheses with data from the 2009 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). Multilevel analysis of 2,606 social and 10,133 commercial enterprises, obtained from 150,721 respondents in 42 countries reveals a significant and positive association between organisation-level innovativeness and growth expectations for both commercial and social enterprises. The effect of organisational innovativeness on growth expectations is stronger positive for social compared to commercial enterprises, and higher levels of goal hybridity increase growth expectations for commercial, but not for social enterprises. No moderating effects of country-level differences were found.

Suggested Citation

  • Natalia Garrido-Skurkowicz & Rafael Wittek & Chaïm la Roi, 2024. "Performance of Hybrid Organisations. Challenges and Opportunities for Social and Commercial Enterprises," Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 1058-1087, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jsocen:v:15:y:2024:i:3:p:1058-1087
    DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2022.2115529
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19420676.2022.2115529
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/19420676.2022.2115529?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:jsocen:v:15:y:2024:i:3:p:1058-1087. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RJSE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.