Abstracts
Abstract
Hybrid organizations are those striving to balance business operations with social and environmental goals. The previous literature has largely disregarded the strategies that these organizations use to avoid mission drift, or the risk of losing sight of their social missions in their efforts to generate revenue. In this paper, we draw on the case of a communitarian bank in Brazil to investigate what strategies hybrid organizations mobilize to avoid mission drift in extreme institutional contexts. We argue that by developing the ability of “embedding within the local community”, hybrid organizations are better equipped to guarantee the sustainability of their hybrid nature.
Keywords:
- nonprofit sector,
- microfinance,
- extreme institutional context,
- mission drift,
- emerging country
Résumé
Les organisations hybrides sont celles qui s’efforcent d’équilibrer leurs opérations commerciales avec des objectifs sociaux et environnementaux. La littérature précédente a largement ignoré les stratégies que ces organisations utilisent pour éviter la dérive de mission ou le risque de perdre de vue leurs missions sociales dans leurs efforts pour générer des revenus. Dans cet article, nous nous inspirons du cas d’une banque communautaire au Brésil pour examiner les stratégies que les organisations hybrides mobilisent pour éviter la dérive des missions dans des contextes institutionnels extrêmes. Nous soutenons qu’en développant la « capacité d’intégration dans la communauté locale », les organisations hybrides sont mieux équipées pour garantir la durabilité de leur nature hybride.
Mots-clés :
- secteur sans but lucratif,
- microfinance,
- contexte institutionnel extrême,
- dérive des missions,
- pays émergent
Resumen
Las organizaciones híbridas son aquellas que se esfuerzan por equilibrar las operaciones comerciales con los objetivos sociales y ambientales. La literatura anterior ha ignorado en gran medida las estrategias que utilizan estas organizaciones para evitar la deriva de la misión o el riesgo de perder de vista sus misiones sociales en sus esfuerzos por generar ingresos. En este documento, nos basamos en el caso de un banco comunitario en Brasil para investigar qué estrategias movilizan las organizaciones híbridas para evitar la deriva de la misión en contextos institucionales extremos. Argumentamos que al desarrollar la capacidad de “integrarse dentro de la comunidad local”, las organizaciones híbridas están mejor equipadas para garantizar la sostenibilidad de su naturaleza híbrida.
Palabras clave:
- sector sin fines de lucro,
- microfinanzas,
- contexto institucional extremo,
- deriva de la misión,
- país emergente
Appendices
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