The challenge of sustaining organizational hybridity

The role of power and agency

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9889806
AutoresClaudine Mangen (0000-0003-4343-9948, Concordia University, autor de correspondencia), Marion Brivot (0000-0002-6551-1149, Université Laval, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen68
Número4
Páginas659-684
Fecha de publicación2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0018726714539524
OpenAlexW1963903606
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas87

Hybrid organizations harbor different and often conflicting institutional logics, thus facing the challenge of sustaining their hybridity. Crucial to overcoming this challenge is the identification process of organizational actors. We propose a theorization of how power relations affect this process. More specifically, we argue that an actor’s power influences their own professional identity: an increase [decrease] in their power, via the heightened [diminished] control that this power provides them over organizational discourse, boosts [threatens] their identity. Our theorization has implications for the longevity of a newly adopted logic within an organization. If the new logic modifies incumbent power relations, the identities of (formerly and newly) powerful individuals are influenced, which may lead these individuals to promote or resist the new logic, thereby affecting the odds that the logic will survive within the organization. We illustrate our theorization with a case study in a professional service firm. Our study contributes to nascent research on hybrid organizations by emphasizing the role of power and agency in the longevity of hybridity

Agency (philosophy · Hybridity · Identity (music · Political science · Power (physics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Accounting and Organizational Management · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Policy and Administration Research