The Failure of Hybrid Organizations: A Legitimation Perspective
| Autor: | Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Juliana Siwale, Jonathan Kimmitt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Microfinance
Process (engineering) Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Context (language use) Conformity 0506 political science law.invention Hybridity Legitimation law Political economy Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration H1 Business and International Management 050203 business & management media_common |
| ISSN: | 1740-8776 |
| Popis: | Organizational hybridity refers to the combination of multiple institutional logics and identities that, within an organizational setting, do not conventionally complement one another. In such conditions, organizations must develop strategies to combine logics and sustain their hybrid forms. Success, however, is not inevitable. In this article, we take a legitimacy-as-process perspective to focus on a failed Microfinance Organization (MFO) in the African context of Zambia. MFOs represent a fascinating context because of their hybrid nature and need to balance several competing institutional demands. We utilise field interviews to analyse the process through which MFOs fail, analysing actor legitimation responses to emerging hybridity demands. We identify three phases associated with these changes: 1) dependent coupling, (2) misaligning legitimation, and (3) circumnavigating over conformity. Our findings emphasise that legitimation efforts in a failed hybrid are not simply the reverse of those that succeed. We observe adaptive processes consistent with successful hybrids but that ultimately sow the seeds of eventual failure. This demonstrates the need to re-think the role of legitimation strategies in hybrids alongside their potential deleterious consequences. |
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