Introduction: This Special Issue explores how organizations can move beyond traditional boundaries to address today’s most urgent social and environmental challenges. The articles showcase how charities, social enterprises, businesses, and cross-sector partnerships experiment with new governance models, innovate for social value, and mobilize collective action to create systemic change.
From studies of UK charities and hybrid collaborations to insights on advocacy, field building, and the politics of social enterprise, the contributions highlight the diverse ways hybridity can help “shape, shake, and shift up” responses to inequality, sustainability, and other grand challenges. Together, they offer fresh perspectives and practical lessons for leaders, policymakers, and change-makers working to transform society for the better.
Highlights include:
🔹 Transformational hybridity in addressing societal grand challenges
🔹 Governance of hybrid charities and inter-organizational collaborations
🔹 The political and normative roles of social enterprises
🔹 Point-Counterpoint on “Future Making” in management research
Read the full issue here: Beyond Hybridity: Addressing Complex Social and Environmental Problems through Multi‐Level Processes or browse the individual articles below.
Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges by Giacomo Ciambotti, Sophie Bacq, Helen Haugh, Silvia Dorado, Bob Doherty, Matteo Pedrini and Gideon Markman
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities by Kevin Curran and Pinar Ozcan
Governing Inter-Organizational Collaboration through Purpose Work and Purpose Borrowing: How Social Enterprises’ Normative Aspirations Influence Business Partners’ Practices by Ignas M. Bruder and Jörg Sydow
Cyclical Change of Partnership Practices in Hybrid Settings by Christiana Weber, Marit Grewe-Salfeld, Markus Göbel, Barbara Harsman, Yuka Matsuo and Rick Vogel
Hybridity in Non-profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation by Danielle Logue, Melissa Edwards and Gillian McAllister
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems by Pauline C. Reinecke and Thomas Wrona
The Choices We Collectively Make: Orchestrating Hybridity to Tackle Grand Challenges by Tiffany Grabski-Walls and Tina C. Ambos
The Political Side of Social Enterprises: A Phenomenon-Based Study of Sociocultural and Policy Advocacy by Johanna Mair and Nikolas Rathert
Outcome-Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence by Georgios Polychronopoulos, Martin Lukeš, Giuliano Sansone, Anirudh Agrawal, Florian Ulrich-Diener and Veronika Šlapáková Losová
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