TY - JOUR
T1 - Professionalization and Hybridization Dynamics of Social Enterprises
AU - Chatterjee, Debabrata
AU - Subramanian, Balaji
AU - Hota, Pradeep Kumar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, International Society for Third-Sector Research.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Most of the extant studies on social enterprises have taken a static view of institutional complexity and assumed conflict between social and market logics as given. In this study, by taking a dynamic perspective and examining the conflict between social and professional logics, we examine the process of their hybridization and how institutional complexity evolves as they grow and professionalize. Based on our study of a hospital in India, we find that social enterprises operating in highly professionalized fields pass through phases of hybridization and professionals play a crucial role as carriers of alternative logics to social enterprises.
AB - Most of the extant studies on social enterprises have taken a static view of institutional complexity and assumed conflict between social and market logics as given. In this study, by taking a dynamic perspective and examining the conflict between social and professional logics, we examine the process of their hybridization and how institutional complexity evolves as they grow and professionalize. Based on our study of a hospital in India, we find that social enterprises operating in highly professionalized fields pass through phases of hybridization and professionals play a crucial role as carriers of alternative logics to social enterprises.
KW - Health sector
KW - Hybrid organizations
KW - Institutional complexity
KW - Professionals
KW - Social enterprises
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U2 - 10.1007/s11266-020-00217-6
DO - 10.1007/s11266-020-00217-6
M3 - Article
SN - 0957-8765
VL - 31
SP - 457
EP - 471
JO - Voluntas
JF - Voluntas
IS - 3
ER -