Background The recent global economic and financial crises have raised fundamental
questions about the impacts of existing corporate business models on the sustainability of …

In a world filled with poverty, environmental degradation, and moral injustice, social
enterprises offer a ray of hope. These organizations seek to achieve social missions through …

The relevance of business models for corporate performance in general and corporate
sustainability in particular has been widely acknowledged in the literature while sustainable …

Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially
legitimate templates for organizing, and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In …

The increasing strategic importance of environmental, social and ethical issues as well as
related performance measures has spurred interest in corporate sustainability performance …

Since the Brundtland report in 1987 a wide debate has emerged on eco-innovation (eg eco-
design, cleaner production) and sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs), that is, the …

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 …

Whereas the concept of sustainability is broadly acknowledged as being multidimensional,
its various dimensions have brought to light different discourses over time and have often …

The relationship between business and community is becoming increasingly important,
especially with the current blurring of the boundaries between profit and not-for-profit …

Purpose This paper aims to discuss hybrid organizations whose business models blur the
boundary between for-profit and nonprofit worlds. With the aim of understanding how hybrid …