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Advancing Research on Social-Business Hybrids

Professional Development Workshop

Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Saturday, August 4, 2012

2:45pm to 4:45pm

Sheraton Boston Hotel in Beacon E

Sponsors: OMT, ONE, SIM

Panelists:

Julie Battilana, Harvard Business School

Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan

Marya Besharov, Cornell University

Nardia Haigh, UMass Boston

Wendy Smith, University of Delaware

Discussant:

Klaus Weber, Northwestern University

Social-business hybrid organizations combine market and social welfare logics: they pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities to generate revenues that sustain their operations. Scholars have recently started to examine the challenges these organizations face and strategies and practices by which they attempt to manage these challenges. In order for research on hybrids to advance and make significant theoretical and practical contributions, scholars need to address several important questions. For example, under what conditions do social-business hybrids emerge? How are these organizations similar to and different from other types of hybrids and traditional for-profit and non-profit organizations? Under what conditions can social-business hybrids retain their hybrid nature? What factors influence their performance?

The purpose of this PDW is to advance research on social-business hybrids and build a community of scholars with an interest in this field. The session will include remarks from a panel of scholars currently doing research on social-business hybrids from diverse theoretical perspectives (e.g., institutional theory, organizational identity, strategic management, organizational paradox), as well as facilitated roundtable conversations about specific issues.

For more details and to add the session to your online program:

http://program.aomonline.org/2012/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=805

We hope to see you there in August!

Julie Battilana, Marya Besharov, and Wendy Smith

PDW co-organizers

Marya Besharov | Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior
ILR School | Cornell University | 397 Ives | Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-8524 | Fax: 607-255- 2261