Hybrid organizations present a puzzle for institutional theory. Because they combine distinct
institutional logics (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Pache & Santos, 2013b), identities (Albert & …

The study of institutional change is a core research area in organization theory and is of
increasing relevance for scholarship in other disciplines. In this article, we review the …

Organizations increasingly grapple with hybridity—the combination of identities, forms,
logics, or other core elements that would conventionally not go together. Drawing on in …

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) operate in complex transnational organizational fields with
multiple, diverse, and possibly conflicting institutional forces. This paper examines how such …

Drawing on a yearlong ethnographic study of reinsurance trading in Lloyd's of London, this
paper makes three contributions to current discussions of institutional complexity. First, we …

While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate
tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to …

In this article I argue that the quest to establish microfoundations for institutional theory is
hindered by two assumptions on which it currently rests: that structure simply constrains and …

How can corporations develop legitimacy when coping with stakeholders who have multiple,
often conflicting sustainable development (SD) agendas? We address this question by …

Recent years have seen an increasing mutual engagement between institutional and
strategy-as-practice scholars who realize that they can learn from each other to address …

This article unpacks the notion of institutional complexity and highlights the distinct sets of
challenges confronting hybrid structural arrangements. The framework identifies three …