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Dear Colleagues:

We are organizing a paper symposium on social hybrid organizational forms (including Benefit Corporations, B Corps, L3Cs, etc.). We already have a some contributors lined up and are looking for a few more to round out the group.

The motivation for the symposium is as follows: Recent years have seen more systematic integration of social and economic goals within new types of hybrid organizations that have some of the attributes and purposes of both for-profit and non-profit organizations. The combining of characteristics from the two sectors into a single social hybrid entity raises a number of theoretical and practical challenges. Among these are constraints of poorly suited legal regimes, reconciliation of conflicting organizational logics, confronting internal and external legitimacy issues, etc.  

To stimulate scholarly thought on this emerging research area, our proposed symposium will broadly explore the antecedents, forms, and consequences of social hybridity. We are open to a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as multiple levels of analysis.

If you have interest and a related research project that may fit the symposium, please email Michael Cummings (cummings@umn.edu) or Hans Rawhouser (hansrawhouser@unlv.edu).

Best,

Michael Cummings

Doctoral Candidate
Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
Carlson School of Management 4-169
University of Minnesota
321 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455