Social enterprise: to be or not to be hybrid? Study of a business and employment cooperative

Entreprise sociale: être ou ne pas être hybride ? Etude d'une coopérative d'activité et d'emploi

Mélissa Boudes ()
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Mélissa Boudes: NEOMA - Neoma Business School, DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The social enterprise, as the archetypical hybrid organisation, is increasingly attention from policymakers and businesses. The former consider them as a means to meet social needs using efficient business models; the latter perceive them as a way of increasing social responsibility and/or accessing new business opportunities. Apparently, their hybridity satisfies everyone's expectations. However, this study of a business and employment cooperative (BEC) shows that hybridity is no panacea. As BECs are becoming institutionalised within a new legal framework, the Parisian BEC Coopaname is developing a "non-hybrid" strategy. To do so, it is developing ambivalent relationships towards its different institutional logics, and thus dismantling its hybridity. It is redefining the discursive foundations of the BEC. Finally, it is pursuing the experiment through partnerships and meso level projects between the State and the people. This study offers insights for the literature on hybrid organisations but also on cooperative research and practice.

Keywords: Hybrid organization; Institutional logics; Cooperatives; organisation hybride; logiques institutionnelles; coopératives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Marché et Organisations, 2018, 31, pp.41 - 59. ⟨10.3917/maorg.031.0041⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/maorg.031.0041

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