Making Hybrids Work: Aligning Business Models and Organizational Design for Social Enterprises
提出社会企业混合型的四种类型,并讨论如何管理每种类型以避免使命漂移并实现财务可持续,对研究社会企业和混合型组织的学者有参考价值。
Hybrid organizations pursuing a social mission while relying on a commercial business model have paved the way for a new approach to achieving societal impact. Although they bear strong promise, social enterprises are also fragile organizations that must walk a fine line between achieving a social mission and living up to the requirements of the market. This article moves beyond generic recommendations about managing hybrids in order to highlight a typology of social business hybrids and discuss how each of the four proposed types of hybrid organizations can be managed in order to avoid the danger of mission drift and better achieve financial sustainability.