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Colleagues,

If you're attending the AOM annual meeting this summer, please consider joining us for the second annual Professional Development Workshop on social-business hybrids. Details are below.

Advancing Research on Social-Business Hybrid Organizations:

Emergence and Internal Dynamics

Saturday, August 10, 2013, 2-5pm

WDW Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Grand Harbor Salon VII & VIII

Sponsors: OMT, ONE, PNP

Panelists:

Filipe Santos, INSEAD

Jill Kickul, NYU

Matthew Lee, Harvard Business School

Helen Haugh, University of Cambridge

Discussant:

Jim Walsh, University of Michigan

Social-business hybrid organizations combine market and social welfare logics: they pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities to generate revenues. Although they offer a promising way to create both social and economic value, hybrids face challenges as they must simultaneously attend to potentially competing logics, identities, goals, and metrics. As hybrids are on the rise, organizational researchers have started to examine the challenges they face and strategies and practices by which they attempt to manage these challenges. Yet, in order for research on hybrids to continue to make significant theoretical and practical contributions, scholars need to address several important questions. First, what makes hybrids different from typical for-profits, not-for-profits and public sector organizations? Second, under what conditions do hybrids emerge? Finally, how do the internal dynamics of hybrids, including structures, practices, and processes, enable them to avoid mission drift and retain their hybrid nature over time?

The purpose of this PDW is to advance research on hybrids by providing a forum for exploring these issues. The PDW builds on and extends the learning and community developed at last year's well-attended and lively PDW sponsored by OMT on the same topic. It includes contributions from leading scholars engaged in research on hybrids, a large group question and answer session, and smaller roundtable discussions. By facilitating conversations about common challenges and opportunities, the PDW seeks to enrich research on hybrids.

Advance registration is not required.

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

http://program.aom.org/2013/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=692

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 | Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: 607-255-8524 | Fax: 607-255-2261