Dear all,

in the effort of promoting the construction of a scholarly community interest in the concept of hybrid organizations, we would like to draw your attention on the following call, hoping you'll apply and/or help us to diffuse it. (thanks!)

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19th EURAM Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 26-28, 2019

Track T01_08 - The Quest for Social Impact: Opportunities and Challenges for Hybrid Organizations

Convenors

Tommaso Ramus (Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, Portugal)

Francesco Rullani (LUISS University, Italy) 

Francesca Capo (LUISS University, Italy)

Pietro Versari (Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, Portugal)

We would like to draw your attention on the call for papers: "The Quest for Social Impact: Opportunities and Challenges for Hybrid Organizations". Selected papers will be presented at the Track /01-08, part of the EURAM conference 2019 (SIG01: Business for Society). If you are interested in the track, please submit your paper by 15 January 2019 - 2 pm CET.

More information about the conference and the submission process are available here:http://www.euramonline.org/submissions-guidelines-2019/call-for-papers-2019.html

Below the full call for short papers, also available here: http://www.euramonline.org/programme2019/strategic-interest-groups/sig-01-business-for-society-b4s.html

We are looking forward to receiving your papers!

Tommaso, Francesco, Francesca and Pietro

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Call for papers

In line with the EURAM 2019 theme of "Exploring the Future of Management", with this topic we aim to contribute to the stream of research that investigates the managerial challenges and opportunities faced by hybrid organizations that pursue social missions through business ventures. By providing market-based solutions to social problems such as inequality, poverty, unemployment and environmental change, such hybrid organizations offer a ray of hope for more inclusive managerial practices and for a more human-centered role of business organizations in society. Indeed, they have proven successful in developing innovative technological, managerial and business solutions to achieve and scale social impact. These innovations have often spread and have been assimilated at a societal level, thus enabling hybrids to play a radical, transformational role in society and push other, more traditional businesses to follow the same path and incorporate more explicitly social and environmental considerations in their objectives, strategies, practices and performance.

Although promising, such hybrid organizations also face myriad of challenges, dilemmas and tensions, thus being themselves fragile and unstable entities. Indeed, the recombination of social and commercial objectives implies the capacity to integrate largely divergent business models, address the demands of multiple stakeholders, and manage complex organizational arrangements and governance mechanisms. Hence, while being loci of creativity and innovation, hybrids are at the same time also exposed to dangerous breakdowns and tensions, both internally and externally. They can transform these organizations in arenas of disorder and conflicts, eventually jeopardizing their capacity to drive a positive change in society.

In this session we invite papers from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to expand our understanding of hybrid organizations and shed light on how they can foster positive social change while thriving as market players. Questions of interest include, but are not restricted, to the following:

- Hybrid organizations and social impact: What kind of societal issues are hybrids able to address? What are instead challenges that they not suited to solve?

- Hybrid organizations and innovation: How can hybrid organizations develop and spread innovations as they attempt to recombine social and commercial goals? How can hybrids create, measure and communicate their impact on society?

- Hybrid organizations and other organizational forms: How can hybrids collaborate with other organizations-such as traditional corporations and charities-to create social

impact? What these more traditional organizational forms learn from hybrid organizations and vice- versa?