Learning in hybrid organizations: A systematic literature review
Marinov,Kristian Metz,Ashley Alexander,Kelly Angeli,Federica
Marinov,Kristian
Metz,Ashley
Alexander,Kelly
Angeli,Federica
Abstract
This chapter explores how learning occurs in hybrid organisations, such as social enterprises with dual financial and social goals. Knowing how to learn and adapt to problems arising from these contradictory goals can be informed by theoretical insight provided by contemporary organisational learning theories. Learning on the organisational level differs from individual learning and is not simply the aggregation of the latter. Hybrid organisations’ adaptive challenges can be categorised as stemming from the logic tensions present in hybrids. Hybrid organisations are required to identify and adapt to the various types of tensions that their organisations face. Organising tensions refer to competing designs, structures and processes oriented towards the achievement of a desired outcome. Belonging tensions relate to identity, and are formed by competing values, logics, and roles. Finally, performing tensions relate to the divergence in notions of organisational success, as defined and guided by strategies to attain goals prescribed by different logics and stakeholders.
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2022
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Routledge
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Sustainability, Sunstainable Development Goals, GRAND CHALLENGES, ORGANIZATION, ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH, Organizing, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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Marinov, K, Metz, A, Alexander, K & Angeli, F 2022, Learning in hybrid organizations : A systematic literature review. in F Angeli, A Metz & J Raab (eds), Organizing for sustainable development : Addressing the grand challenges . Routledge, pp. 73-99. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429243165-5