Constituents and Characteristics of Hybrid Businesses: A Qualitative, Empirical Framework
通过对18家企业的分析，研究了混合型企业（兼顾财务与非财务目标的企业）的特征、驱动因素及商业模式，发现其强调知识共享与可持续性，利润常作为实现可持续目标的手段。
Despite mounting research on hybrid businesses that deliver value beyond financial goals, little is known about their nature. We assess what characterizes hybrid businesses and drives their founders by means of an abductive analysis of 18 ventures. Findings are discussed for the outcome of business models, organization of business model, and underlying aims of hybrid entrepreneurs building an empirical framework of constituents and characteristics. Results show participatory patterns of organization and emphasis on knowledge sharing about sustainability. The general profit and growth orientation is often a means to the end of achieving sustainability goals. Entrepreneurs are driven by nonmaterial motives.