Julie Battilana

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a ready-to-w...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the concept and propose a conceptual account of institutional entrepreneurship that helps to accommodate them, and highlight future directions for research on institutional entrepreneurship, and conclude with a discussion of its role in strengthening institutional theory as well as in the field of organization studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that social enterprises that combine the organizational forms of both business and charity at their cores are an ideal type of hybrid organization, making social enterprise an attractive setting to study hybrid organizing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that individuals are more likely to engage in institutional entrepreneurship under what conditions individuals are enabled to act as institutional entrepreneurs, by taking into account the individual level of analysis that neo-institutional theorists often tend to neglect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms, and the role of governing boards in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and maintain organizational hybridity in social enterprises.