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The Roles of Networks in Institutionalizing New Hybrid Organizational Forms: Insights from the European Renewable Energy Cooperative Network
Huybrechts, Benjamin; Haugh, Helen
2018In Organization Studies, 39 (8), p. 1085-1108
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Keywords :
organizational hybridity; network; renewable energy
Abstract :
[en] Hybrid organizational forms combine values and practices from different institutional domains, rendering them difficult to fit neatly into the structures of extant organizational forms. Since the work required to institutionalize a new hybrid organizational form may be beyond the resources and capabilities of individual organizations acting alone, we shift the focus to inter-organizational collective action. Using empirical data from a study of a European network of renewable energy cooperatives, we find that, in order to institutionalize the new hybrid organizational form, the network can contribute to overcome the legitimacy challenges inherent in organizational hybridity. In particular, the network builds field-level receptivity to institutional pluralism, collectively codifies the hybrid organizational form, and consolidates legitimation towards plural field-level audiences. In order to perform these institutionalization roles, the network itself becomes increasingly formalized and mobilizes mediating functions involving different types of resources, legitimacy and target audiences. The research advances knowledge of hybrid organizational forms and their collective institutionalization through inter-organizational networks.
Research center :
CES - Centre d'Économie Sociale - ULiège
Disciplines :
Social economics
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory
Author, co-author :
Huybrechts, Benjamin ;  Université de Liège > HEC Liège : UER > Management en économie sociale
Haugh, Helen
Language :
English
Title :
The Roles of Networks in Institutionalizing New Hybrid Organizational Forms: Insights from the European Renewable Energy Cooperative Network
Publication date :
July 2018
Journal title :
Organization Studies
ISSN :
0170-8406
Publisher :
SAGE Publications
Volume :
39
Issue :
8
Pages :
1085-1108
Peer reviewed :
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