J Battilana

Biographic Data

ID134480
NAMEJ Battilana
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEBattilana
SIGNATUREBATTILANA J
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
ORCID0000-0001-5515-6502
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS142
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory

    Open AccessJ Battilana, Christine M Beckman et al.ARTICLEAdministrative Science Quarterly2025

    As threats to democracy endanger the rights and freedoms of people around the world, scholars are increasingly interrogating the role that organizations play in shaping democratic and authoritarian societies. Just as societies can be more or less democratic, so, too, can organizations. This essay, in honor of ASQ ’s 70th volume, argues for a deeper focus in organizational research on the extent to which organizations themselves are democratic and…

  • « Attrape-moi si tu peux ! »: Proposition méthodologique de capture de logiques institutionnelles en matière d’engagement social au sein du sport professionnel français

    Werner Boucher, Aurlien Francois et al.ARTICLEStaps2024

    La création de Structures Dédiées à l’Engagement Social (SDES) telles que les fondations et/ou les fonds de dotation par les clubs professionnels français pour développer leur stratégie sociétale est une pratique en voie d’institutionnalisation. Ce phénomène questionne le(s) rôle(s) de ces SDES, raison pour laquelle nous mobilisons le concept de logiques institutionnelles (LI), emprunté à la théorie néo-institutionnelle, afin de montrer comment l…

  • On Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research

    J Battilana, Marya Besharov et al.CHAPTERSage Handbook of Sociology of…2017

  • Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises

    J Battilana, Metin Sengul et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Journal2015

    We examine the factors that influence the social performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission and sustain their operations through commercial activities by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that both social imprinting, defined as a founding team’s early emphasis on accomplishing the organization’s social mission, and economic productivity are important drivers of a WISE’s social performance. Howeve…

  • Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises

    J Battilana, Matthew LeeARTICLEAcademy of Management Annals2014

    Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially legitimate templates for organizing, and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In this paper, we introduce and develop the concept of hybrid organizing, which we define as the activities, structures, processes and meanings by which organizations make sense of and combine multiple organizational forms. We propose that social enterprises that combine the o…

  • Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

    J Battilana, Silvia DoradoARTICLEAcademy of Management Journal2010

    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-wear” model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study of two pioneering commercial microfinance organizations suggest that to be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common …

  • Acting globally but thinking locally? The enduring influence of local communities on organizations

    Open AccessChristopher Marquis, J BattilanaARTICLEResearch in Organizational Behavior2009

  • How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship

    J Battilana, Bernard Leca et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Annals2009

    As well as review the literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship. We first present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the concept and propose a conceptual account of institutional entrepreneurship that helps to accommodate them. We then present the different phases of the process of institutional entrepreneursh…

  • Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency

    Open AccessJ Battilana, Thomas D'Aunno et al.CHAPTERInstitutional Work2009

    Introduction Institutions are social structures that are characterized by a high degree of resilience (Scott, 2001). They have a self-activating nature (Lawrence, Hardy & Phillips, 2002; Jepperson, 1991). Actors tend to reproduce institutions in a given field of activity without requiring either repeated authoritative intervention or collective mobilization (Clemens & Cook, 1999: 445). Early neo-institutional studies emphasized ways that institut…

  • Agency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of Individuals' Social Position

    Open AccessJ BattilanaARTICLEOrganization2006Cited by: 142References: 21

    Although early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront. Institutional entrepreneur-ship has been presented as a promising way to account for institutional change endogenously. However, this notion faces the paradox of embedded agency. To overcome this paradox, it is necessary to explain under what conditions actors are enable…