[en] This conceptual paper aims to respond to the poorly addressed question of the emergence of hybrid organizations – i.e. organizations that embrace several institutional logics. It does so by developing a model and a set of propositions focusing on the heterogeneity of the entrepreneurial team as a possible driver for hybridity throughout the entrepreneurial process and up to the emergence of a hybrid organization. As contributions to the literatures on (collective) entrepreneurship, imprinting and hybrid organizations, we advance several avenues and conditions under which the heterogeneity of the entrepreneurial team may imprint the entrepreneurial process and lead to the creation of hybrid organizations. Our propositions connect the individual, team and organizational levels and thus advance our understanding of how institutional logics can be combined across different levels of analysis and throughout the stages of an entrepreneurial process.
Research center :
CES - Centre d'Économie Sociale - ULiège
Disciplines :
Strategy & innovation General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory Social economics
Author, co-author :
Dufays, Frédéric ; Université de Liège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Management en économie sociale
Huybrechts, Benjamin ; Université de Liège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Management en économie sociale
Language :
English
Title :
Where do hybrids come from? Entrepreneurial team heterogeneity as an avenue for the emergence of hybrid organizations
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE] BELSPO - SPP Politique scientifique - Service Public Fédéral de Programmation Politique scientifique
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