BUILDING SUSTAINABLE HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF COMMERCIAL MICROFINANCE ORGANIZATIONS

@article{Battilana2010BUILDINGSH,
  title={BUILDING SUSTAINABLE HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF COMMERCIAL MICROFINANCE ORGANIZATIONS},
  author={Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado},
  journal={Academy of Management Journal},
  year={2010},
  volume={53},
  pages={1419-1440}
}
We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a “ready-to-w... 
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